The Last King of Scotland

Awards:   Winner of Whitbread First Novel Award 1998
Author:   Giles Foden
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
ISBN:  

9780375703317


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   26 October 1999
Format:   Paperback
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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The Last King of Scotland


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  • Winner of Whitbread First Novel Award 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 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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Author:   Giles Foden
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
Imprint:   Random House Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 13.10cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.289kg
ISBN:  

9780375703317


ISBN 10:   0375703314
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   26 October 1999
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Genuinely beautiful and disturbing. -- The Village Voice <br> This decidedly quirky yet absorbing first novel--that brings to mind the diabolical Evelyn Waugh. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review


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


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Giles Foden lives in London.

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