scribbling the cat travels with an african soldier

What results from Fuller's journey is a remarkably unbiased and unsentimental glimpse at life in Africa, a land that besets its creatures with pests, plagues, and natural disasters, making the people there at once more hardened and more vulnerable than elsewhere. Driven by K's memories, Fuller and K decide to enter the heart of darkness in the most literal way, by traveling from Zambia through Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) and Mozambique to visit the scenes of the war and to meet other veterans. Like all the veterans of the war, K has blood on his hands. For his war, like all wars, was a brutal one, marked by racial strife, jungle battles, brutal tortures, and the murdering of innocent civilians.

Yet he is also a born-again Christian, given to weeping when he recollects his failed romantic life and welling up inside with memories of battle. Tattooed, battle-scarred, and weathered by farm work, K is a lion of a man, feral and bulletproof. He is, seemingly, a man of contradictions. With the same fiercely beautiul prose that won her such acclaim for Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Fuller here recounts her friendship with K. Nonetheless, Fuller began her strange friendship with the man she calls K, a white African and veteran of the Rhodesian War. Scribbling the Cat book by Alexandra Fuller Travel Books > African Travel Books ISBN: B000PFGDZ6 ISBN13: 9781299195578 California by Alexandra Fuller See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 4.69 - 20.59 Paperback 4.19 - 6.09 Audio CD - Audio Cassette - Select Condition Like New 4.79 Very Good 4.69 Good 4. Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him: Curiosity scribbled the cat, he told Bo. She is the author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, a national bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2002, and a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award, and Scribbling the Cat, winner of the 2005 Ulysses Award for Art of Reportage.

When Alexanra Bo Fuller was in Zambia a few years ago visiting her parents, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a tough bugger. from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Scribbling the cat travels with an african soldier