description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. An intimate memoir of growing up in Africa during the Rhodesian civil war of 1971 to 1979 describes a girl's life on farms in southern Rhodesia, Milawi, and Zambia, detailing her hardscrabble existence with an alcoholic mother, frequently absent father, and three lost siblings.
language: English
title: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
titlecomplete: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
genres: Biography, Book Club, Memoir, Nonfiction, Zimbabwe, Autobiography, Travel, Biography Memoir, History, Africa
ratings_count: 54732
places: Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Guardian First Book Award, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Book Sense Book of the Year Award
category: Adult Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize
publisher: Picador