Giles Foden lives in London.
The Last King of Scotland
by Giles Foden
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- ISBN-13: 9780375703317
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication date: 10/28/1999
- Series: Vintage International Series
- Edition description: Reissue
- Pages: 352
- Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.70(d)
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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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"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