Waiting: A Novel of Uganda at War (Women Writing Africa Series),

Name: Waiting: A Novel of Uganda at War (Women Writing Africa Series),
Brand: Goretti Kyomuhendo

Goretti Kyomuhendo

A Ugandan authors "unsettling and richly atmospheric" novel of a young African woman confronting the brutal end of Idi Amins dictatorship (Publishers Weekly).Safe for years in their remote Ugandan village, thirteenyearold Alinda and her family are suddenly faced with the terror of the selfproclaimed Last King of Scotland when troops of his use the local highway to escape antiAmin Ugandan and Tanzanian allied forces. With her pregnant mother on the verge of labor, her brother anxious to join the Liberators, and a house full of hungry siblings, neighbors, and refugees, Alinda learns what it takes to endure terrible hardship, and to hope for a better tomorrow . . .Set in the seventies during Idi Amins last year of rule, Waitingevokes the fear and courage of a closeknit society in a novel full of human interplay and pungent smaller events, told with a verbal chastity reflecting both tension and dawning adult consciousness (Booklist). | Goretti Kyomuhendo Waiting : A Novel of Uganda's Hidden War Paperback Book