Isegawa, who is himself now a citizen of the Netherlands (where this debut novel first appeared, in a Dutch translation), has attempted a saga akin to Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children: an ironical bildungsroman that’s also a full-scale portrayal of a traditional society in flux and in crisis. This briskly paced comic epic recounts in lavishly imagined detail its sly narrator Mugezi’s upbringing in 1960s Uganda, struggles with demands imposed by his sprawling extended family and divided country, and eventual escape to the mixed blessings of sanctuary in Amsterdam.
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