| Abyssinian Chronicles Contributor(s): Isegawa, Moses (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375705775 ISBN-13: 9780375705779 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2001 Annotation: Like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children" and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Moses Isegawa's Abyssinian Chronicles tells a riveting story of twentieth-century Africa that is passionate in vision and breathtaking in scope. At the center of this unforgettable tale is Mugezi, a young man who manages to make it through the hellish reign of Idi Amin and experiences firsthand the most crushing aspects of Ugandan society: he withstands his distant father's oppression and his mother's cruelty in the name of Catholic zeal, endures the ravages of war, rape, poverty, and AIDS, and yet he is able to keep a hopeful and even occasionally amusing outlook on life. Mugezi's hard-won observations form a cri de coeur for a people shaped by untold losses. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | African American - Historical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 99089888 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 5.17" W x 8.01" (0.85 lbs) 480 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Cultural Region - African - Cultural Region - East Africa - Ethnic Orientation - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Moses Isegawa's Abyssinian Chronicles tells a riveting story of twentieth-century Africa that is passionate in vision and breathtaking in scope. At the center of this unforgettable tale is Mugezi, a young man who manages to make it through the hellish reign of Idi Amin and experiences firsthand the most crushing aspects of Ugandan society: he withstands his distant father's oppression and his mother's cruelty in the name of Catholic zeal, endures the ravages of war, rape, poverty, and AIDS, and yet he is able to keep a hopeful and even occasionally amusing outlook on life. Mugezi's hard-won observations form a cri de coeur for a people shaped by untold losses. |