{"product_id":"the-last-king-of-scotland-isbn-9780375703317","title":"The Last King of Scotland","description":"Shortly after his arrival in Uganda, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan is called to the scene of a bizarre accident: Idi Amin, careening down a dirt road in his red Maserati, has run over a cow. When Garrigan tends to Amin, the dictator, in his obsession for all things Scottish, appoints him as his personal physician. And so begins a fateful dalliance with the central African leader whose Emperor Jones-style autocracy would transform into a reign of terror.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eThe Last King of Scotland\u003c\/b\u003e Foden's Amin is as ridiculous as he is abhorrent: a grown man who must be burped like an infant, a self-proclaimed cannibalist who, at the end of his 8 years in power, would be responsible for 300,000 deaths. And as Garrigan awakens to his patient's baroque barbarism--and his own complicity in it--we enter a venturesome meditation on conscience, charisma, and the slow corruption of the human heart. Brilliantly written, comic and profound, \u003cb\u003eThe Last King of Scotland\u003c\/b\u003e announces a major new talent.\"Genuinely beautiful and disturbing.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\"This decidedly quirky yet absorbing first novel--that brings to mind the diabolical Evelyn Waugh.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003eGiles Foden lives in London.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304240664805,"sku":"NP9780375703317","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375703317.jpg?v=1767740138","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-last-king-of-scotland-isbn-9780375703317","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}