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Waiting: A Novel of Uganda's Hidden War

Waiting: A Novel of Uganda's Hidden War

Kyomuhendo, Goretti
Daymond, Margaret

Paperback

Series: Women Writing Africa

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1558615393
ISBN13: 9781558615397
Publisher: Feminist Press
Published: May 1 2007
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.44 Depth: 8.12
Language: English

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, Waiting evokes 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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