num_pages: 320
description: In 1972, when Alexandra Fuller was two years old, her parents finally abandoned their English life and returned to what was then Southern Rhodesia and to the beginning of a civil war. By the time she was eight, the war was in full swing. Her parents veered from being determined farmers to being blind drunk, whilst Alexandra and her sister, the only survivors of five children, alternately take up target practice and sing Rod Stewart numbers from sunbleached rocks. This memoir is about living through a civil war; it is about losing children and losing that war, and realizing that the side you have been fighting for may well be the "wrong" one.
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: Book Club, Biography, Africa, Travel, Zimbabwe, Autobiography, Nonfiction, History, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 54723
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: Pan Macmillan