Snakepit

Praised on both sides of the Atlantic as well as in the author’s native Uganda, Moses Isegawa’s first novel Abyssinian Chronicles was a “big, transcendently ambitious book” ( Boston Globe ) that “blasts open the tidy borders of the conventional novel and redraws the literary map to reveal a whole new world” ( Elle ). In Snakepit , Isegawa returns to the surreal, brutalizing landscapes of his homeland during the time of dictator Idi Amin, when interlocking webs of emotional cruelty kept tyrants g