Alexandra Fuller

An African Childhood

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

With an introduction by Anne Enright Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book award, a story of civil war and a family's unbreakable bond. 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. 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. Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award in 2002, Alexandra Fuller's classic memoir of an African childhood is suffused with laughter and warmth even amid disaster. Unsentimental and unflinching, but always enchanting, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is the story of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time.

Picador Classic

Emma Friedheim

This memoir is fascinating and brutally honest. The whole time I thought that by the end we would get some adult perspective on the blatant racism, but I guess I have to give the author props for not trying to preach/rewrite history/sugarcoat anything. This book is a window into a life and a time. Incredibly well written and a very appreciated intro to African history as I start to dive deeper into the region at work.

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight An African Childhood

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