num_pages: 315
description: In Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller’s debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she stares down disaster and looks back with rage and love at the life of an extraordinary family in 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: Random House Trade Paperbacks