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Winner of the Whitebread Award "This decidedly quirky yet absorbing first novel--that brings to mind the diabolical Evelyn Waugh."--"Los Angeles Times Book Review 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. "Genuinely beautiful and disturbing."--"The Village Voice

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• Pełny tytuł: The Last King of Scotland
• Autor: Giles Foden
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 335
• EAN: 9780375703317
• ISBN: 0375703314
• ID: 10985875
• Wydawca: Vintage Publishing
• Waga: 453 g
• Wymiary: 203 × 133 × 25 mm
• Data wydania: 01. November 1999

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