Жиль Фоден — новинки

Каково это - быть личным врачом диктатора? Захватывающий триллер Жиля Фодена повествует о молодом медике из Шотландии, который оказался вовлеченным в беспощадные и абсурдные события, разворачивающиеся во время правления Иди Амина в Уганде. Узнавая о мыслях и планах президента из первых уст, доктор Гарриган испытывает противоречивые чувства - восхищение одновременно с отвращением. Когда страна погружается в хаос гражданской войны, он понимает, что необходимо наконец принять правильное решение - но в какую сторону бежать?

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Shortly 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.

In The Last King of Scotland 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, The Last King of Scotland announces a major new talent.

The D-Day landings - the future of Europe depends on the right weather conditions in the English Channel on a single day. Henry Meadows, a young maths prodigy from the Met Office, is charged with finding Wallace Ryman, the man who can predict turbulence, the wild card in weather forecasting. But events, like the weather, begin to spiral out of control.

Каково это - быть личным врачом диктатора? Захватывающий триллер Жиля Фодена повествует о молодом медике из Шотландии, который оказался вовлеченным в беспощадные и абсурдные события, разворачивающиеся во время правления Иди Амина в Уганде. Узнавая о мыслях и планах президента из первых уст, доктор Гарриган испытывает противоречивые чувства - восхищение одновременно с отвращением. Когда страна погружается в хаос гражданской войны, он понимает, что необходимо наконец принять правильное решение - но в какую сторону бежать?

Shortly 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 Maserati, has hit a cow. When Garrigan tends to Amin, the dictator, obsessed with all things Scottish, appoints him as his personal physician. So begins a fateful dalliance with the African leader whose Emperor Jones–style autocracy would transform into a reign of terror. In The Last King of Scotland, Foden’s Amin is as ridiculous as he is abhorrent: a self-proclaimed cannibal who, at the end of his eight years in power, would be responsible for 300,000 deaths. As Garrigan…