“If the film The Last King of Scotland—based on Giles Foden's excellent 1999 novel—whetted your appetite for details of Idi Amin's grisly reign, pick up this debut novel by Isegawa for an even more elaborate portrait of 1970s Uganda. Isegawa, now based in Holland, writes with a feverish intensity, furiously stuffing an entire decade's worth of woe and clamor into this dense, ambitious book.From Vanity Fair July 2007”
