Abyssinian Chronicles

Like Salman Rushdies Midnights Children and Gabriel Garcia Marquezs OneHundred Years of Solitude Moses Isegawas <strong>Abyssinian Chronicles</strong> tells ari... » 

Like Salman Rushdies Midnights Children and Gabriel Garcia Marquezs OneHundred Years of Solitude Moses Isegawas Abyssinian Chronicles tells ariveting story of twentiethcentury Africa that is passionate in vision andbreathtaking in scope. At the center of this unforgettable tale is Mugezia young man who manages to make it through the hellish reign of Idi Amin andexperiences firsthand the most crushing aspects of Ugandan society hewithstands his distant fathers oppression and his mothers cruelty in the nameof Catholic zeal endures the ravages of war rape poverty and AIDS and yethe is able to keep a hopeful and even occasionally amusing outlook on life.Mugezis hardwon observations form a cri de coeur for a people shaped byuntold losses. «