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Last King Of Scotland |
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by: Giles Foden
ISBN: 0-375-70331-4
Pub. Date: February 2007
Fiction
- Literary
List Price: $14.00
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Shortly after
his arrival in Uganda, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan is
called to the scene of a bizarre accident: Idi Amin, careening
down a dirt road in his red Maserati, has run over a cow. When
Garrigan tends to Amin, the dictator, in his obsession for all
things Scottish, appoints him as his personal physician. And so
begins a fateful dalliance with the central African leader whose
Emperor Jones-style autocracy would transform into a reign of
terror.
In The Last King of Scotland Foden's Amin is as
ridiculous as he is abhorrent: a grown man who must be burped
like an infant, a self-proclaimed cannibalist who, at the end of
his 8 years in power, would be responsible for 300,000 deaths.
And as Garrigan awakens to his patient's baroque barbarism--and
his own complicity in it--we enter a venturesome meditation on
conscience, charisma, and the slow corruption of the human
heart. Brilliantly written, comic and profound, The Last King
of Scotland announces a major new talent.
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