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Gehen wir heute Abend nicht zu den Hunden: Eine afrikanische Kindheit von Fuller, Alexandra
by Fuller, Alexandra | HC | VeryGood
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- Artikelzustand
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
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- ISBN
- 0375507507
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375507507
ISBN-13
9780375507502
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1972934
Product Key Features
Book Title
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight : an African Childhood
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2001
Topic
Children's Studies, Africa / South / General, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
18 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-041752
Reviews
Advance praise forDon't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight "This searing memoir of a white family clinging to lives in Africa as Rhodesia became Zimbabwe lays out, without moralizing or sentimentality, the way in which turmoil and injustice in society distort the lives of families and individuals." Mary Catherine Bateson, author ofComposing a Life and Full Circles, Overlapping Lives "Nobody has ever written a book about growing up white in rural Africa the way Alexandra Fuller has. Her voice is mordant, her ear uncanny. Her unsentimentality is a pleasant shock. Her sense of humor is extremely sly. Without a trace of pretension, she quietly performs what is really a major literary featnailing both the poetry and the myopia of a child's experience in a brawling, bad-luck family on the losing side of an anti-colonial war." William Finnegan, author ofCrossing the Line: A Year in the Land of ApartheidandCold New World: Growing Up in Harder Country
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
968.9/104/092
Synopsis
When the ship veered into the Cape of Good Hope, Mum caught the spicy, heady scent of Africa on the changing wind. She smelled the people: raw onions and salt, the smell of people who are not afraid to eat meat, and who smoke fish over open fires on the beach and who pound maize into meal and who work out-of-doors. She held me up to face the earthy air, so that the fingers of warmth pushed back my black curls of hair, and her pale green eyes went clear-glassy. "Smell that," she whispered, "that's home." Vanessa was running up and down the deck, unaccountably wild for a child usually so placid. Intoxicated already. I took in a faceful of African air and fell instantly into a fever. In Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with visceral authenticity. 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. From 1972 to 1990, Alexandra Fullerknown to friends and family as Bobogrew up on several farms in southern and central Africa. Her father joined up on the side of the white government in the Rhodesian civil war, and was often away fighting against the powerful black guerilla factions. Her mother, in turn, flung herself at their African life and its rugged farm work with the same passion and maniacal energy she brought to everything else. Though she loved her children, she was no hand-holder and had little tolerance for neediness. She nurtured her daughters in other ways: She taught them, by example, to be resilient and self-sufficient, to have strong wills and strong opinions, and to embrace life wholeheartedly, despite and because of difficult circumstances. And she instilled in Bobo, particularly, a love of reading and of storytelling that proved to be her salvation. A worthy heir to Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham, Alexandra Fuller writes poignantly about a girl becoming a woman and a writer against a backdrop of unrest, not just in her country but in her home. But Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is more than a survivor's story. It is the story of one woman's unbreakable bond with a continent and the people who inhabit it, a portrait lovingly realized and deeply felt.
LC Classification Number
DT2990.F85 2002
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- s***n (231)- Bewertung vom Käufer.Letzter MonatBestätigter KaufGreat!
- 9***1 (49)- Bewertung vom Käufer.Letzter MonatBestätigter KaufThe book cover and size did not match the photo so it does not match the size or cover of the other two books I purchased in the series. A little disappointed, but all three were purchased to be a donation and the recipients won't care about this.