Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier
 

Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier

by Alexandra Fuller

Thomas Wolfe's trusted axiom about not being able to go home again gets a compelling spin through the African veldt in Alexandra Fuller's Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier. Fuller (Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight : An African Childhood) journeys through modern Zambia, to battlefields in Zimbabwe and Mozambique with the scarred veteran of the Rhodesian Wars she identifies... (read more)

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It was natural for me to follow Don't Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight with Scribbling the Cat, As it was Alexandra Fuller's way of completing her earlier memoir. She wrote in an interview that the first book was the memories of a child being raised in a war-torn land, and how she had to step out of the child's persona in order to give even a rudimentary historical background so readers would understand the context. Scribbling the Cat was her attempt to look face to face - with adult eyes - at the...

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