{"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\u003cbr\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","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50410800906514,"sku":"9780375719219","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_abc36af3-f628-4f9c-8ab6-479649af5126.jpg?v=1729307758","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/snakepit-9780375719219","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}