Abyssinian Chronicles -- Moses Isegawa, Paperback

Like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Moses Isegawa's Abyssinian Chronicles tells a riveting story of twentieth-century Africa that is passionate in vision and breathtaking in scope.

At the center of this unforgettable tale is Mugezi, a young man who manages to make it through the hellish reign of Idi Amin and experiences firsthand the most crushing aspects of Ugandan society: he withstands his distant father's oppression and his mother's cruelty in the name of Catholic zeal, endures the ravages of war, rape, poverty, and AIDS, and yet he is able to keep a hopeful and even occasionally amusing outlook on life. Mugezi's hard-won observations form a cri de coeur for a people shaped by untold losses.

Author: Moses Isegawa
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 11/13/2001
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.17w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9780375705779

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 11/11/2001 pg. 32

About the Author
Moses Isegawa was born in Uganda. He lives in the Netherlands.