by Giles Foden · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571179169
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«The Last King of Scotland» is the historical novel by Giles Foden, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (336 pages, in English).
The title, one Idi Amin claimed for himself, opens the story of Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor who becomes the personal physician of the Ugandan dictator. Fascinated and horrified by the regime, Garrigan watches Uganda descend into chaos; back in Scotland, he reviews his complicity and finds the answer in the corruption of power.
The novel won the Whitbread Award for First Novel in 1998.
For readers of historical fiction and suspense with a real political backdrop.
Giles Foden is an English author, best known for his novel The Last King of Scotland (1998).
