{"product_id":"9780375703317","title":"The Last King of Scotland","description":"\u003cp\u003eShortly after his arrival in Uganda, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan is called to the scene of a bizarre accident: Idi Amin, careening down a dirt road in his red Maserati, has run over a cow. When Garrigan tends to Amin, the dictator, in his obsession for all things Scottish, appoints him as his personal physician. And so begins a fateful dalliance with the central African leader whose Emperor Jones-style autocracy would transform into a reign of terror.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eThe Last King of Scotland\u003c\/b\u003e Foden's Amin is as ridiculous as he is abhorrent: a grown man who must be burped like an infant, a self-proclaimed cannibalist who, at the end of his 8 years in power, would be responsible for 300,000 deaths. And as Garrigan awakens to his patient's baroque barbarism—and his own complicity in it—we enter a venturesome meditation on conscience, charisma, and the slow corruption of the human heart. Brilliantly written, comic and profound, \u003cb\u003eThe Last King of Scotland\u003c\/b\u003e announces a major new talent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024788373744,"sku":"9780375703317","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780375703317_p0.jpg?v=1763768197","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780375703317","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}