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Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier

Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier

Fuller, Alexandra

Paperback

African HistoryAfricaTravel Writing

ISBN10: 0143035010
ISBN13: 9780143035015
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Apr 26 2005
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.60 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
When Alexandra (Bo) Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a tough bugger. Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him; he told Bo: Curiosity scribbled the cat. Nonetheless, Fuller began her strange friendship with the man she calls K, a white African and veteran of the Rhodesian war. With the same fiercely beautiful prose that won her acclaim for Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Fuller here recounts her friendship with K.

K is, seemingly, a man of contradictions: tattooed, battle scarred, and weathered by farm work, he is a lion of a man, feral and bulletproof. Yet he is also a born-again Christian, given to weeping when he recollects his failed romantic life, and more than anything else welling up inside with memories of battle. For his war, like all wars, was a brutal one, marked by racial strife, jungle battles, unimaginable tortures, and the murdering of innocent civilians--and K, like all the veterans of the war, has blood on his hands.

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