{"product_id":"waiting-a-novel-of-ugandas-hidden-war","title":"Waiting: A Novel of Uganda's Hidden War","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eWaiting: A Novel of Uganda's Hidden War\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eGoretti Kyomuhendo\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781558615397\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Feminist Press at CUNY\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2007\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1st Feminist Press Ed\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e136\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Ugandan author's \"unsettling and richly atmospheric\" novel of a young African woman confronting the brutal end of Idi Amin's dictatorship (\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSafe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith 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 . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in the seventies during Idi Amin's last year of rule, \u003cem\u003eWaiting\u003c\/em\u003e 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\" (\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"The Feminist Press at CUNY","offers":[{"title":"Waiting: A Novel of Uganda's Hidden War | Goretti Kyomuhendo | Paperback | 9781558615397 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks A 1776373","offer_id":49725554098328,"sku":"1776373","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/91UcZOelJGL.jpg?v=1787332504","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/waiting-a-novel-of-ugandas-hidden-war","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}