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Waiting

Goretti Kyomuhendo

出版	Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2007
主題	Fiction / SagasFiction / LiteraryFiction / Political
ISBN	15586154159781558615410
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MPKoAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Set in the seventies during the last year of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's brutal, often surreal rule, Waiting evokes the fear and courage of a small close-knit society uncertain of what the edicts of a madman or the marauding of his disintegrating army will bring with each day.

Safe for years in their remote country village far from Amin's political battlefield, teenager Alinda and her family experience terror firsthand when the troops of the self-proclaimed "Last King of Scotland" use the local highway to escape pursuing Ugandan and Tanzanian allied forces. With her pregnant mother on the verge of labor, her brother anxious to join the Liberators, and a house full of hungry siblings, neighbors, and displaced refugees, Alinda learns what it takes to survive, and eventually to plan for a new life.