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Author:	Giles Foden	Format:	--
Publisher:	Random House Inc	Edition:	1
ISBN-10:	0375403604	ISBN-13:	9780375403606
Educational Level:	--	Product Type:	--
Publication Year:	--	Subject:	--
Language:	--	Condition:	Good

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Synopsis
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.
Size
Length:	335 pages
Height:	9.5 in.
Width:	6.0 in.
Thickness:	1.0 in.
Weight:	20.8 oz.

Publisher's Note
Nicholas Garrigan has fled his native Scotland, and his parents expectations, to take a position as a doctor in a remote rural outpost of Central Africa. Shortly after his arrival in Uganda, he is called to the scene of a bizarre car accident: Idi Amin, manically driving his red Maserati down the dirt tracks of Garrigans small village, has run over a cow. Garrigan binds Amins sprained wrist and puts the incident behind him, until a letter arrives from the Minister of Health informing him that Amin--in his obsession with all things Scottish--has ap-pointed Garrigan his personal physician. Garrigan is instructed to settle into State House, on the grounds of Amins residence, immediately. Later, Garrigan will reflect that had he known what awaited him, had he foreseen the terrifying concatenation of events this decision would set in motion, he would have boarded the first plane back to Scotland. He will wonder why it never occurred to him to simply say no. But--flattered, disarmed, and intrigued, if uneasily, by the pros-pect of entering Amins inner circle--he steps into the role of caring for the man who will turn out to be one of the most brutal dictators of all time. So begins Nick Garrigans journey into a Con-radian heart of darkness, as his own moral centerbattles weakly against, and then succumbs to, the dark and irresistible seductions of Idi Amin Dada, whose cruelty and cunning are masked by brilliant rhetoric, hilarious wit, and electrifying personal magnetism. When at last Nick awakens to the horrors of Amins regime, he must awaken also to his own complicity in it--he cared for Amin, as a doctor and as a friend--and to the knowledge that he is both a traitor to his own country and a prisoner in his new one. By turns comic and chilling, Giles Foden's The Last King of Scotland is a masterful debut from a remarkable talent--a riveting history of "blood, misery and foolishness" that lingers in the mind long after the last page is turned, and a profound meditation on conscience, charisma, and the slow corruption of the human heart. The electrifying presence at the center of Giles Foden's first novel is the dictator Idi Amin -- famously brutal and paradoxically revealed as a man of irresistible magnetism. The Last King of Scotland is the story, both comic and chilling, of his effect on the life of the Scottish civil servant Dr. Nicholas Garrigan, who -- after reluctantly becoming Amin's personal physician -- is all too quickly seduced by his brilliance and charm. When the British government attempts to enlist Garrigan in a plot to poison Amin, the doctor refuses. He has come to see Amin as his friend. And when at last he awakens to the unspeakable horror and cruelty of Amin and his political regime, he begins to glimpse terrible truths about power, charisma, and the slow corruption of the human heart. "The best novel to come out of Africa since Wole Soyinka's Ake", says Redmond O'Hanlon. "Giles Foden", the Times Literary Supplement raves, "moves effortlessly through every register from farce to gruesome tragedy, with energy and panache".
Industry reviews
"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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Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0375403604
Title : The Last King of Scotland
EAN : 9780375403606
Authors : Giles Foden
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : Knopf
Publication Date : 1998-10-27
Pages : 335
List Price (MSRP) : 25.00
Height : 1.0000 inches
Width : 6.0000 inches
Length : 9.5000 inches
Weight : 1.3000 pounds
Keywords : Action & Adventure, Contemporary, General, General AAS, Hardcover, Printed Books
Condition : Good
Classification Notes : This is a former library book with usual wear and/or markings *

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