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Sense of Place Stars: Uganda

 

Page Modified: June 18, 2008

Fiction Titles

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Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

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Fiction

• Tropical Fish: Stories Out of Entebbe
  Author: Baingana, Doreen
  Publisher: Univ of Mass $ 27.95 ISBN: 1558494774 Date: 2005
  In her fiction debut, Baingana follows a Ugandan girl as she navigates the uncertain terrain of adolescence to become a worldly but conflicted woman. As they cope with Uganda's collapsing infrastructure and food shortages, the Mugishas also contend with the universal themes of family cohesion, sex and relationships, disease, betrayal, and spirituality.
  Updated 10.18.06
• The Last King of Scotland
  Author: Foden, Giles
  Publisher: Knopf List Price: $ 25 ISBN: 0375403604 Date: 1998
  KirkusLJ
  A look at Uganda's Idi Amin, as seen through the eyes of his Scottish doctor. "The best novel to come out of Africa since Wole Soyinka's Ake" , says Redmond O'Hanlon. The Times Literary Supplement says that The Last King of Scotland "moves effortlessly through every register from farce to gruesome tragedy with energy and panache". (ACT note)
• Abyssinian Chronicles
  Author: Isegawa, Moses
  Publisher: Knopf $ 26 ISBN: 0375406131 Date: 2000
  Kirkus | NYTBR Notable
  A masterful saga of life in 20th-century Uganda--the ancient and the modern, peace and insane violence, despotism and democracy--told from the viewpoint of Mugezi, from his birth in a rural village in the early 1960s to his emigration to the Netherlands in 1985.
  Updated 12.27.05
• Snakepit
  Author: Isegawa, Moses
  Publisher: Knopf $ 24 ISBN: 0375414541 Date: 2004
  From the author of Abyssinian Chronicles ("one of the most impressive works of fiction to have ever come out of Africa"--"Kirkus Reviews), a powerful new novel set in Uganda in the 1970s--a dark picaresque that brilliantly depicts the life and death of a nation run by men gorged on power and paranoia.
  Updated 10.18.06
• The Canal House
  Author: Lee, Mark
  Publisher: Algonquin $ 23.95 ISBN: 1565123794 Date: 2003
  In this masterful novel about love, faith, and revenge, a foreign correspondent trying to escape the ravages of war discovers that following his heart is the most dangerous path of all.
  Updated 10.18.06
• Dream of Darkness
  Author: Ruell, Patrick (Reginald Hill)
  Publisher: Foul Play Press $ 17.95 ISBN: Date: 1991
  Sairey Ellis's father is writing his memoirs. His career in the security service has provided him with the ammunition for some explosive revelations about Britain's secret links with the brutal regime of Idi Amin, and unofficial British connivance in Rhodesian sanctions busting. But there are those who will stop at nothing to prevent him from publishing…
  This complex thriller from the acclaimed Reginald Hill takes a cool look at the role of a pitiless security service that punishes the guilty and innocent alike. Gripping, assured and perceptive, here is a chillingly convincing portrait of the nightmarish repercussions of a life spent in espionage. - Publisher Marketing
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• Gravity of Sunlight
  Author: Shand, Rosa
  Publisher: Soho $ 13 ISBN: 1569472408 Date: 2000
  Expatriates in Africa find themselves in morally ambiguous territory in this tale of passion. The disintegration of a marriage between a minister and his wife is played out against a dangerously unsettled atmosphere.
  Updated 12.27.05
• Kahawa
  Author: Westlake, Donald
  Publisher: Viking $ 15.95 ISBN: 0670411329Date: 1982
  What's a mile long, rusty, slow, and worth a fortune? It's a freight train full of kahawa, Swahili for coffee, and it belongs to none other than the jovial, bloodletting dictator Idi Amin. Locked away in his palace of secrets, fear, and torture, Amin doesn't know that in the lush heart of his Uganda some of the world's most unscrupulous, oversexed mercenaries, moneymakers, and thieves are busy plotting to steal all this kahawa in one fell swoop, sending the international coffee market and a varied cast of court jesters, spies, and crooks into deadly conniptions. You see, in a madman's kingdom, stealing a freight train of coffee isn't just taboo; it's a kick. - Publisher Marketing.
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