The Last King of Scotland

Informationen zum Autor Giles Foden was born in 1967 and spent his youth in Africa. Between 1990 and 2006 he worked as a journalist on the Times Literary Supplement and the Guardian. In 1998 he published The Last King of Scotland, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award and was later made into a feature film. The author of two other novels and also a work of narrative non-fiction, in 2007 he was appointed Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He lives in Norfolk. The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden was the book about Idi Amin's Uganda which inspired the major motion picture, starring James McAvoy and Forest Whitaker. Zusammenfassung In an incredible twist of fate! a Scottish doctor on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world's most barbaric figures: Idi Amin. Impressed by Dr Garrigan's brazen attitude in a moment of crisis! the newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his personal physician and closest confidante.

Product details

• Authors: Giles Foden, Foden Giles
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.07.2010
• EAN: 9780571258215
• ISBN: 978-0-571-25821-5
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 197 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Revolutionary Writing; Revolutionary Writing
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary