Books by Moses Isegawa (4)
Uganda2.
Abyssinian Chronicles : A Novel by Moses Isegawa EN
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Every once in a while there emerges a literary voice with the power and urgency to immerse readers deep within a previously "invisible" culture. From a young African writer who has already earned comparisons to Salman Rushdie and Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes this masterful saga of life in 20th-century Uganda. The teller of this panoramic tale is Mugezi, a quick-witted, sharp-eyed man whose life encompasses the traditional and the modern, the peaceful and the insanely violent, the despotic and the democratic. Born in a rural community in the early 1960s, he is raised by his grandfather, a depos... continue
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Crónicas abisinias by Moses Isegawa ES
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Al igual que Hijos de la medianoche de Salman Rushdie y Cien años de soledad de Gabriel García Márquez, Cronicas abisinias de Moses Isegawa cuenta una fascinante historia del África del siglo XX que tiene una visión apasionante y un alcance impresionante.
En el centro de esta inolvidable historia está Mugezi, un joven que logra superar el reino infernal de Idi Amin y experimenta de primera mano los aspectos más aplastantes de Uganda. Resiste la opresión de su distante padre y la crueldad de su madre en nombre del celo católico. So... continue
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Snakepit : A Novel by Moses Isegawa EN
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Praised on both sides of the Atlantic as well as in the author’s native Uganda, Moses Isegawa’s first novel Abyssinian Chronicles was a “big, transcendently ambitious book” (Boston Globe) that “blasts open the tidy borders of the conventional novel and redraws the literary map to reveal a whole new world” (Elle). In Snakepit, Isegawa returns to the surreal, brutalizing landscapes of his homeland during the time of dictator Idi Amin, when interlocking webs of emotional cruelty kept tyrants gratified and servants cooperative, a land where no one–not husbands or wives, parents or lovers–is ever s... continue