Giles Foden
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Giles Foden
- 1998 Whitbread-1st Novel winner
- 2007 BAFTA-Film nominee
- 1998 JT Black-Fiction shortlist
- Score: 22.48
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.
In The Last King of Scotland Foden’s Amin is as ridiculous as he is abhorrent: a grown man who…
