![]() ![]() It raises questions about the protocols an author should observe in fictionalizing historical fact. It leaves the reader with an overload of brutal images. This is a grim book, disquieting in many ways. They spend their lives in an impossibly extreme setting and their individual fates enact instructive variations on the consequences of passivity and careless complicity in the face of established evil. The characters with whom the novel is concerned make up an advantaged group-they are well educated and well connected socially. It is more a study in ethical blankness than it is of active, absolute evil. “Snakepit” is right! Moses Isegawa, author of Abyssinian Chronicles (1998), has set his strong new novel in Uganda between 19, the precise period of Idi Amin Dada’s ghastly reign of terror in that country. ![]()
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