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Title: Why We Miss Graham Greene
Review: The legacy of the 1994 Rwanda genocide still needs to find its fictional counterpoint to Philip Gourevitch's masterpiece "We Wish to Inform You . . ." This novel, however, is not it. It is weighed down with terrible dialogue and schmaltzy prose: ex: "Gentille let a few salty little pearls run down her satiny cheeks." The characters are all good or all bad and there is no depth to their mental struggles. Courtemanche gets credit for resisting the trap of letting savages take care of savages, and he does point fingers in the right direction (France, Belgium). But in the end, he has saddled this story with a shallow, falsely-poetic protagonist, and I was left wondering what Greene would have done had he lived long enough into the 1990s to serve as witness to the horrible Rwandan genocide.
