The Last King of Scotland Paperback - 1999
by Giles Foden
The story, both comic and chilling, of Idi Amin's 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.
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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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- Title The Last King of Scotland
- Author Giles Foden
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Vintage In
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-10-26
- ISBN 9780375703317 / 0375703314
- Weight 0.67 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.22 x 0.77 in (20.27 x 13.26 x 1.96 cm)
- Reading level 500
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1970's
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Cultural Region: African
- Cultural Region: East Africa
- Library of Congress subjects Adventure stories, Amin, Idi
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98036722
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- New York Times, 12/19/1999, Page 36
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