Waiting: A Novel of Uganda's Hidden War

By Goretti Kyomuhendo

Book Overview

A Ugandan author's "unsettling and richly atmospheric" novel of a young African woman confronting the brutal end of Idi Amin's dictatorship (Publishers Weekly).

Safe for years in their remote Ugandan village, thirteen-year-old Alinda and her family are suddenly faced with the terror of the self-proclaimed "Last King of Scotland" when troops of his use the local highway to escape anti-Amin 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 refugees, Alinda learns what it takes to endure terrible hardship, and to hope for a better tomorrow . . .

Set in the seventies during Idi Amin's last year of rule, Waiting evokes the fear and courage of a close-knit society in a novel "full of human interplay and pungent smaller events, told with a verbal chastity reflecting both tension and dawning adult consciousness" (Booklist).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558615393
• ISBN13: 9781558615397
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Feminist Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.1"