num_pages: 310
description: Alexandra Fuller was the daughter of white settlers in 1970s war-torn Rhodesia. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is a memoir of that time, when a schoolgirl was as likely to carry a shotgun as a satchel. Fuller tells a story of civil war; of a quixotic battle against nature and loss; and of her family's unbreakable bond with a continent which came to define, shape, scar and heal them. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she looks back with rage and love at an extraordinary family and an extraordinary time.
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: Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan Ltd