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In keeping with the spirit of Partition of 1947, we have compiled a list of stories that deal with movements and migrations,

The Last King of Scotland (Revolutionary Writing) by Foden, Giles at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10:  0571258212 - ISBN 13:  9780571258215 - Faber & Faber - 2010 - Softcover

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Review: No, were not talking Bonnie Prince Charlie here. The title character of Giles Fodens debut novel, The Last King of Scotland, is none other than Idi Amin, the former dictator of Uganda. Told from the viewpoint of Nicholas Garrigan, Amins personal physician, the novel chronicles the hell that was Uganda in the 1970s. Garrigan, the only son of a Scots Presbyterian minister, finds himself far away from Fossiemuir when he accepts a pos...

“First you reverse a river. Then you electrify it.” March 9, 2021 Rivers make good metaphors—too good, perhaps. They can be murky and charged with hidden meaning, like the Mississippi, which to Twain represented “the grimmest and most dead-earnest of reading matter.” Alternatively, they can be bright and clear and mirror-like. Thoreau set off for a week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and within a day found himself lost in reflection over the reflections he saw playing on the wate...