num_pages: 512
description: Set in a tribal village during the years of the Idi Amin terror in Uganda, Abyssinian Chronicles takes us into the heart of Africa, vividly immersing us in the mesmerizing extremes of beauty and brutality, wisdom and ignorance, wealth and poverty, hope and despair that define the continent today. We come to intimately know an extended family rich in centuries-old tradition, and follow the unsentimental education of the boy who takes it all in, who learns, observes and teaches, and starts to feel the very earth moving under the African experience and the people he loves. 'As Rushdie's Midnight's Children was for modern India, Abyssinian Chronicles will likely prove to be a breakthrough book for Uganda' Time Out 'A bewitching bildungsroman ...Abyssinian Chronicles is, in every sense, a big book, exploding with big themes and a rich cast of colourful characters ...a spectacular debut' Observer
language: English
title: Abyssinian Chronicles
titlecomplete: Abyssinian Chronicles
genres: Literature, Literary Fiction, Roman, War, Uganda, Fiction, Historical Fiction, International, Africa, African Literature
ratings_count: 829
publisher: Picador