Snakepit by Moses Isegawa
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New
Location
South Africa
Product code
YS19655
Bob Shop ID
614385756
A Novel
259 Pages, Paperback
23cm x 15cm (C-Format)
Goodreads Rating: 3.25 * 225 ratings * 19 reviews
Genres: Africa/20th Century/Historical
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.Bat Katanga is a Ugandan just returned to his homeland after two years in Britain. While he completed a postgraduate degree at Cambridge, he watched from afar as "flag independence [gave] way to economic independence" in Uganda, his chances to make a fortune there increasing with each "reform" imposed by Idi Amin. Now, when Bat lands a job as Bureaucrat Two in the Ministry of Power and Communications, he feels himself entering the top echelons of government, his sense of honor and honesty firmly "Everything seemed to have been building to this moment, his triumphant entry into the bastions of power." But when he is threatened into taking a bribe from a Saudi prince, he unwittingly begins a journey--both psychological and physical--into the darkest and most dangerous precincts of the madness that was Amin's Uganda. As Bat's life begins to unravel, we see the men and women whose lives intersect General Bazooka, his superior at the ministry--"a creature of people's fears and prejudices"--a man slowly losing Amin's approval, and with it any sense of safety or sanity; Victoria, who bears both Bat's child and a deadly grudge against him; Bat's family and friends, coping with the advantages and disadvantages of connection to someone in high places; Bat's wife, Babit, who pays the ultimate price for his mistakes; Robert Ashes, the mercenary Englishman whoinsinuates himself into Amin's trust--and who will be the only one left standing after Amin's downfall.