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Title: Snakepit
Author: Moses Isegawa
Narrator: Nyambi Nyambi
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-05-09
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Bat Katanga, a Cambridge University post-graduate, returns to his dictator-oppressed African homeland in the 1970s. Rising rapidly through the government's bureaucratic ranks, Bat must navigate - and survive - a world rife with bribery, seduction, conspiracy and execution.
©2005 Moses Isegawa; (P)2009 Recorded Books, LLC
Members Reviews:
The Decadence and Violence of Amin's Regime
This superb novel of the final days of Idi Amin's despotic regime in Uganda captures the inhumanity of absolute power in horrifying detail. Bat Katanga, a graduate of Cambridge, returns to his homeland and a job at the Ministry of Power and Communication to seek his fortune. The man who hires him, General Bazooka, has done so to undo him, for Bazooka is sensitive about his own lack of education as well as Bat's privileged southern roots and wants to see Bat - and the part of Uganda he represents - to fail. Bat, of course, has no clue; he is more interested in the expensive house and XJ10 that await him. Unfortunately for Bat, Bazooka is as brutal as Bat is naive. When a third man, a white man named Ashes becomes Marshal Amin's confidante, Bat becomes a pawn in a battle of power-grubbing one-upmanship that puts everything he values in jeopardy. As author Isegawa takes the reader into the minds of these men and their lovers, family, and those who surround them, a full, unsettling picture of tyranny emerges. In this country ruled by murder and revenge, no one is safe.
Moses Isegawa writes with stunning clarity and force, faltering only slightly at the end with scenes that would be dramatic in any other novel but which are anticlimactic given what has occurred before. His most amazing achievement is the descent into the minds of brutes to make them understandable even if they are wholly despicable. The weaving of these multiple stories - Bat's, Bazooka's, and others - is seamless, as everything points toward the fall of Idi Amin's hedonistic and unforgiving regime.
I cannot recommend this novel highly enough. Its bold look at a country ruled by brutality adds a surprisingly human dimension to outright inhumanity. Readers of Nuruddin Farah's LINKS, which details an intellectual in the midst of Somalia's civil war, will find many similarities, although the two novels belong distinctively to their respective authors and homelands.
A Muddled Tale of Evil
The modern history of the region now known as Uganda is utterly dominated by the bizarre and terrifying rule of that most clownish of despots, Idi Amin. In this, his second novel, Isegawa attempts to explore the notion of individual responsibility under such a regime. The main protagonist in this story is recent Cambridge graduate Bat Katanga, a math whiz who returns to his native country around 1973, just after Amin has kicked out the many Indians who lived there. Seeing opportunity in the misfortune of these others, Bat manages to land a high position in the MInistry of Power and Communication. The other primary player in the story is Bat's patron, General "Bazooka", who is cut of an altogether different cloth.
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Title: Snakepit
Author: Moses Isegawa
Narrator: Nyambi Nyambi
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-05-09
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Bat Katanga, a Cambridge University post-graduate, returns to his dictator-oppressed African homeland in the 1970s. Rising rapidly through the government's bureaucratic ranks, Bat must navigate - and survive - a world rife with bribery, seduction, conspiracy and execution.
©2005 Moses Isegawa; (P)2009 Recorded Books, LLC
Members Reviews:
The Decadence and Violence of Amin's Regime
This superb novel of the final days of Idi Amin's despotic regime in Uganda captures the inhumanity of absolute power in horrifying detail. Bat Katanga, a graduate of Cambridge, returns to his homeland and a job at the Ministry of Power and Communication to seek his fortune. The man who hires him, General Bazooka, has done so to undo him, for Bazooka is sensitive about his own lack of education as well as Bat's privileged southern roots and wants to see Bat - and the part of Uganda he represents - to fail. Bat, of course, has no clue; he is more interested in the expensive house and XJ10 that await him. Unfortunately for Bat, Bazooka is as brutal as Bat is naive. When a third man, a white man named Ashes becomes Marshal Amin's confidante, Bat becomes a pawn in a battle of power-grubbing one-upmanship that puts everything he values in jeopardy. As author Isegawa takes the reader into the minds of these men and their lovers, family, and those who surround them, a full, unsettling picture of tyranny emerges. In this country ruled by murder and revenge, no one is safe.
Moses Isegawa writes with stunning clarity and force, faltering only slightly at the end with scenes that would be dramatic in any other novel but which are anticlimactic given what has occurred before. His most amazing achievement is the descent into the minds of brutes to make them understandable even if they are wholly despicable. The weaving of these multiple stories - Bat's, Bazooka's, and others - is seamless, as everything points toward the fall of Idi Amin's hedonistic and unforgiving regime.
I cannot recommend this novel highly enough. Its bold look at a country ruled by brutality adds a surprisingly human dimension to outright inhumanity. Readers of Nuruddin Farah's LINKS, which details an intellectual in the midst of Somalia's civil war, will find many similarities, although the two novels belong distinctively to their respective authors and homelands.
A Muddled Tale of Evil
The modern history of the region now known as Uganda is utterly dominated by the bizarre and terrifying rule of that most clownish of despots, Idi Amin. In this, his second novel, Isegawa attempts to explore the notion of individual responsibility under such a regime. The main protagonist in this story is recent Cambridge graduate Bat Katanga, a math whiz who returns to his native country around 1973, just after Amin has kicked out the many Indians who lived there. Seeing opportunity in the misfortune of these others, Bat manages to land a high position in the MInistry of Power and Communication. The other primary player in the story is Bat's patron, General "Bazooka", who is cut of an altogether different cloth.