Don't Let's go to the Dogs Tonight : : an African Childhood
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An intimate memoir of growing up in Africa during the Rhodesian civil war of 1971 to 1979 describes her life on farms in southern Rhodesia, Milawi, and Zambia, detailing her hardscrabble existence with an alcoholic mother, frequently absent father, and three lost siblings, as well as her fierce love for Africa. Reader's Guide included.
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Rich, evocative, tragicomic memoir submitted by virgodt on June 17, 2014, 8:33pm A wonderfully written book about the author's childhood in the former Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, during that country's civil war. Fuller has a knack for black humor and funny anecdotes that make some of the tragedy in her story more bearable. Fuller's family were white farmers who could not afford to leave Africa and endured the threat of "terrorists" (black Africans fighting for majority rule), crop failures, loss of their land and forced moves, mental illness, alcoholism, and the deaths of three of Fuller's siblings- despite these trials, their story is somehow uplifting and ultimately optimistic. Their casual racism also illuminated what was so wrong with Rhodesia in the 1970's and 80's.
PUBLISHED
New York : Random House, 2003.
Year Published: 2003
Description: 315 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780375758997 (softcover)
0375758992 (softcover)
0375507507
SUBJECTS
Fuller, Alexandra, -- 1969- -- Childhood and youth.
Girls -- Zimbabwe -- Biography.
Zimbabwe -- History -- Chimurenga War, 1966-1980 -- Personal narratives, British.