Boyd Tonkin

The dictator of the dorm: Our Lady of the Nile, by Scholastique Mukasonga, reviewed

Set in an exclusive girls’ lycée above Lake Kivu, the novel moves from adolescent japes to a classroom apocalypse which anticipates the Rwandan genocide

Scholastique Mukasonga. Credit: Getty Images 
issue 10 April 2021
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  • Our Lady of the Nile

    Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Melanie Mauthner

    Daunt Books, pp. 224, £9

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