Description
| Product ID: | 9781447275084 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Picador Classic |
| Title: | Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight |
| Authors: | Author: Alexandra Fuller |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: general, Autobiography: general, African history, History, African history, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Zimbabwe, c 1970 to c 1980 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A story of civil war; of a quixotic battle against nature and loss; and of a family's unbreakable bond with a continent which came to define, shape, scar and heal them <p><b>With an introduction by author Anne Enright.</b><br><br><b>Shortlisted for the <i>Guardian</i> First Book award, a story of civil war and a family's unbreakable bond.<br><br></b><i>How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.</i><br><br>As the daughter of white settlers in war-torn 1970s Rhodesia, Alexandra Fuller remembers a time when a schoolgirl was as likely to carry a shotgun as a satchel. This is her story – of a civil war, of a quixotic battle with nature and loss, and of a family's unbreakable bond with the continent that came to define, scar and heal them.<br><br>Shortlisted for the <i>Guardian </i>First Book Award, Alexandra Fuller's classic memoir of an African childhood is suffused with laughter and warmth even amid disaster. Unsentimental and unflinching, but always enchanting, <i>Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight</i> is the story of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-01-01 |