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Abyssinian Chronicles

โœ Scribed by Moses Isegawa

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
Year
2011;2000
Tongue
en-US
Weight
342 KB
Edition
1st ed
Category
Fiction
ISBN
030778780X

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โœฆ Synopsis

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-century Uganda.

The teller of this panoramic tale is Mugezi, a quick-witted, sharp-eyed man whose life encompasses the traditional and the modern, the peaceful and the insanely violent, the despotic and the democratic. Born in a rural community in the early 1960s, he is raised by his grandfather, a deposed clan chief, and his great-aunt, or "grandmother," after his parents immigrate to the capital city of Kampala. At age nine, he leaves behind his secure life in the village to join his parents and siblings in the city, where he is first exposed to the despotism and hardship that he will contend with in the years to come.

The nightmare reign of Idi Amin and its chaotic...

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