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The Last King of Scotland
Giles Foden
Vintage
November 1999
On Sale: October 28, 1999
352 pages
ISBN: 0375703314
EAN: 9780375703317
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Non-Fiction Memoir | Fiction
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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