{"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\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375719219\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 259\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.08h x 5.24w x 0.60d","brand":"Moses Isegawa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43643941028021,"sku":"9780375719219","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_3f64f737-afc9-4f17-955d-d6a58f152d0c.jpg?v=1708445040","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/snakepit-9780375719219","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}