Goretti Kyomuhendo

Waiting (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel of Uganda at War

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A Ugandan author's "unsettling and richly atmospheric" novel of a young African woman confronting the brutal end of Idi Amin's dictatorship ( Publishers Weekly). Safe for years in their remote Ugandan village, thirteen-year-old Alinda and her family are suddenly faced with the terror of the self-proclaimed "Last King of Scotland" when troops of his use the local highway to escape anti-Amin 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 Amin's last year of rule, Waitingevokes the fear and courage of a close-knit 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).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Feminist Press at CUNY
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781558619173
• Artikelnr.: 44758042

Autorenporträt

Goretti Kyomuhendo (1965- ) was born and raised in Hoima, Western Uganda. She started writing in 1992 for Kampala-based newspapers and has since expanded in writing fiction; she has published four novels. Kyomuhendo also co-founded FEMRITE, a women's publishing house.