Alexandra Fuller
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| Title | : | Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood |
| Author | : | Alexandra Fuller |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 315 pages |
| Published | : | March 11th 2003 by Random House Trade Paperbacks (first published 2001) |
| Categories | : | Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Cultural. Africa. Biography. Biography Memoir. Eastern Africa. Zimbabwe |
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In Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller’s debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she stares down disaster and looks back with rage and love at the life of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time.Specify Books Conducive To Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
| Original Title: | Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Zimbabwe Malawi Zambia |
| Literary Awards: | Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2002), Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Nonfiction (2003), Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize (2002) |
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An autobiography about growing up in colonial Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe). Two things made me curious about this book: it's from the perspective of the child of colonialists, and the events are fairly recent as it takes place in the 1970's-1990's.The voice is that of a relatively innocent young girl (as innocent as you can be in midst of war and dire economic circumstances) and she's allowed to tell her childhood as she saw it, good and bad.I've had fairly mixed feelings about this book: II read this book (well, most of it, I admit, I didn't finish and didn't want to) while in training as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Namibia, Africa. I found the writing to be disjointed and the colonial attitudes to be far too accurate. I might have liked it better before going to Africa, before seeing first-hand what various colonizing governments did to people, but maybe not. I might have liked it better if she told her memories in order, rather than jumping around so I had some clue as to where
This is one of my top-ten favorite books of all time. An extremely compelling memoir, well-written, poignant but not maudlin or precious. I've read it twice and feel another reread coming on.The brutal honesty in this story is startling, and Fuller does not set out to insert political or social critique into her story. This is probably unsettling for readers who come face-to-face with her family's colonialist attitudes and expect to hear her criticize and critique them. However, I prefer that
This is one of my top-ten favorite books of all time. An extremely compelling memoir, well-written, poignant but not maudlin or precious. I've read it twice and feel another reread coming on.The brutal honesty in this story is startling, and Fuller does not set out to insert political or social critique into her story. This is probably unsettling for readers who come face-to-face with her family's colonialist attitudes and expect to hear her criticize and critique them. However, I prefer that
Alexandra (Bobo) and her sister, Vanessa, are some kick ass tough kids. Raised by their parents on farms in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi during the 1970s, they are white Africans, exposed to deeply ingrained racism from birth. They have free reign among scorpions, snakes, leopards, and baboons and they live in the middle of the Rhodesian war. The girls learn to load and shoot guns to protect themselves from terrorists in this long civil war. Mixed in with these geographical hardships is
The author writes of growing up in the African countries of Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Zambia. I love those books that make you want to see/smell/hear/feel the countries they are describing, and this is one of those. "I appreciated that we, as whites, could not own a piece of Africa, but I knew, with startling clarity, that Africa owned me."They were poor. They struggled. Life wasn't easy. Her mum is a manic-depressive ... unfortunately, enduring the death of some of her children didn't help. "Mum
The first few lines are gripping, to say the least.Mom says, "Don't come creeping into our room at night."They sleep with loaded guns beside them on the bedside rugs.She says, "Don't startle us when we're sleeping.""Why not?""We might shoot you.""Oh."Just a taste of what life was like for young Alexandra "Bobo" Fuller.Living in a house with no electricity, Fuller recounted how she and her sister employed the "buddy system" to use the bathroom at night. One girl used the toilet while the other
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