Dont Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller
Dont Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

Author: Alexandra Fuller

Narrator: Lisette Lecat

Unabridged: 10 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/06/2008


Synopsis

In 1972, when Alexandra Fuller was two years old, her parents finally abandoned their English life and returned to what was then Southern Rhodesia and to the beginning of a civil war. By the time she was eight, the war was in full swing.

Her parents veered from being determined farmers to being blind drunk, whilst Alexandra and her sister, the only survivors of five children, alternately take up target practice and sing Rod Stewart songs from sun bleached rocks. This memoir is about living through a civil war; it is about losing children and losing that war, and realising that the side you have been fighting for may well be the wrong one.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Juliefrick on January 05, 2015

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 crit......more

Goodreads review by A.E. on July 22, 2021

This is a wonderfully detailed memoir of the author growing up in southern Africa amidst civil war, terrorism, and blazing heat that threatens to kill crops, livestock, and people. My most frequent thought reading this book was, “This is so very different from the way I grew up.” From earwigs skitte......more

Goodreads review by Debbie "DJ" on June 08, 2016

What a fantastic read! Alexandra Fuller took me on an amazing journey through her younger years growing up in Africa as a poor white girl. Her parents are expats from Britain who moved in the late 60's to work as farm managers. This memoir details her life from that time right up to the late 90's, a......more