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I spent last year reading my way around the world, tackling my first world reading challenge and traveling the globe through literature. Moses isegawa is the pseudonym for sey wava, who lived for fifteen years in the netherlands before returning to his native uganda in 2006. Like moses isegawas first novel, abyssinian chronicles, snakepit knopf. Moses isegawas sprawlingly ambitious first novel, abyssinian.
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