num_pages: 1
description: 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 Maserati, has hit a cow. When Garrigan tends to Amin, the dictator, obsessed with all things Scottish, appoints him as his personal physician. So begins a fateful dalliance with the 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 self-proclaimed cannibal who, at the end of his eight years in power, would be responsible for 300,000 deaths. As Garrigan awakens to his patient's barbarism--and his own complicity in it--we enter a venturesome meditation on conscience, charisma, and the slow corruption of the human heart.
language: English
title: The Last King of Scotland
titlecomplete: The Last King of Scotland
characters: Idi Amin
genres: Historical, Novels, Uganda, War, Africa, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Contemporary, Fiction
ratings_count: 3982
places: Uganda
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Whitbread Award
category: First Novel, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Somerset Maugham Award, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Betty Trask Award
publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks