{"product_id":"snakepit-9780375719219","title":"Snakepit","description":"Praised on both sides of the Atlantic as well as in the author's native Uganda, Moses Isegawa's first novel \u003cb\u003eAbyssinian Chronicles\u003c\/b\u003e was a \"big, transcendently ambitious book\" (\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e) that \"blasts open the tidy borders of the conventional novel and redraws the literary map to reveal a whole new world\" (\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eSnakepit\u003c\/b\u003e, 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 gratified and servants cooperative, a land where no one-not husbands or wives, parents or lovers-is ever safe from the implacable desires of men in power. Men like General Bazooka, who rues the day he hired Cambridge-educated Bat Katanga as his \"Bureaucrat Two\"-a man \u003ci\u003etoo\u003c\/i\u003e good at his job-and places in his midst (and his bed) a seductive operative named Victoria, whose mission and motives are anything but simple. Ambitious and acquisitive, more than a little arrogant, Katanga finds himself steadily boxed in by events spiraling madly out of control, where deception, extortion, and murder are just so many cards to be played.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Moses Isegawa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 259\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.08h x 5.24w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375719219\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoses Isegawa was born in Uganda and worked as a history teacher before leaving for the Netherlands in 1990. He is the author of \u003cb\u003eAbyssinian Chronicles\u003c\/b\u003e. He lives in Amsterdam.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45134662926451,"sku":"9780375719219","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_e26bfb01-d281-4ffa-8f3a-16346facc3a8.jpg?v=1782389602","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/snakepit-9780375719219","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}