Every once in a while there emerges a literary voice with the power and urgency to immerse readers deep within a previously "invisible" culture. From a young African writer who has already earned comparisons to Salman Rushdie and Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes this masterful saga of life in 20th-centu
Abyssinian Chronicles: A Novel: novel
β Scribed by Isegawa, Moses
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
- Year
- 2011;2000
- Tongue
- en-ca
- Weight
- 344 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 030778780X
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β¦ Synopsis
The story of Mugezi, left behind when his parents move to the capital city of Kampala, who later joins them in the city, attends a repressive Catholic seminary, becomes a high school teacher, survives the nightmare reign of Idi Amin, witnesses the spread of the AIDS virus, and finally immigrates to Amsterdam.
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