Don'T Let'S Go To The Dogs Tonight Av Alexandra Fuller

<p><b>With an introduction by Anne Enright</b></p><p><b>Shortlisted for the <i>Guardian</i> First Book award, a story of civil war and a family's unbreakable bond.</b><br><b></b><br><b></b><i>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.</i></p><p>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.</p><p>Shortlisted for the <i>Guardian </i>First Book Award in 2002, Alexandra Fuller's classic memoir of an African childhood is suffused with laug