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Item number:250526491016
Item location:Ashland, Oregon, United States
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Author: Giles FodenFormat: CD
Publisher: Blackstone Audio IncISBN-10: 0786158905
ISBN-13: 9780786158904Length: Unabridged
Subject: Fiction & LiteratureLanguage: English
Topic: HistoricalCondition: Brand New
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Subject: HistoryTopic: Africa
Format: CDLanguage: English
Publication Year: 2006Condition: Brand New
Special Attributes: 1st Edition  
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A novel about Idi Amin's Uganda in the early 1970s, told from the point of view of a young Scottish doctor who is the dictator's personal physician. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.

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Narrated by:Mirron E. Willis, Mirron Willis
Edition Description:Unabridged

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Height:6.0 in.
Width:5.3 in.
Thickness:1.5 in.
Weight:11.2 oz.

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"Amin's personality emerges from this novel as extraordinarily vivid, a far more complex and knowing individual than the normal depiction of comic-opera buffoon. As the novel progresses you understand how a weak character like Garrigan would be seduced and made powerless by such sheer force of personality....[Foden] has written an audacious, shrewd and spirited first novel."
Literary Review - William Boyd (03/19/1998)


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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 Maserati, has hit a cow. When Garrigan tends to Amin, the dictator, obsessed with all things Scottish, appoints him as his personal physician. So begins a fateful dalliance with the 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 self-proclaimed cannibal who, at the end of his eight years in power, would be responsible for 300,000 deaths. As Garrigan awakens to his patient's barbarism—-and his own complicity in it—-we enter a venturesome meditation on conscience, charisma, and the slow corruption of the human heart.

“Narrator Mirron Willis presents a dazzling cast of characters, including African tribesmen, diplomats, Scots, and Brits, all with vocal authority, clarity, and believability….Willis’s work is instrumental in bringing readers face-to-face with Garrigan’s moral dilemma as he descends from well-meaning physician to political accomplice.” —AudioFile

“A sobering reality check and an impressive work of fiction.”—Washington Times

“Garrison is the perfect foil for Amin, whose overwhelming physical presence, peacockish rhetoric, and cold-blooded savagery are so well captured as to make this novel more than a mesmerizing read: it is also a forceful account of a surrealistic and especially ugly chapter of modern history.”—Publishers Weekly

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