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"A few years ago, on her parents' farm on the humid banks of a swollen African river, Alexandra Fuller met the man whom she comes to call "K." Neither of them will be the same again. In spite of being warned off by her father - "Curiosity scribbled the cat" - Fuller is intrigued by K, and comes to befriend him. He is, seemingly, a man of contradictions: weathered by farm work, K is a lion of a man, feral and bullet proof. A survivor of the land whose contours he has helped shape, K is also a product of the land which has shaped him. With the same disarmingly unguarded prose that won her acclaim for Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Fuller here recounts her strange, compelling, and troubled friendship with K." "Fuller is drawn to K by the hope that, in understanding this man, she may come close to answering questions about her own chaotic and violent history in this part of the world. For Fuller grew up during the Rhodesian War and has found herself cracked and chronically restless as a result of the experience. Most of the ex-combatants she knows won't talk about the war. There is a complicity of silence surrounding the subject. But K - a white African and a veteran of the all-wh
Who reads L'Afrique au coeur?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Alexandra Fuller [Fuller, Alexandra]
- Publisher
- Editions des Deux Terres
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780143035015
- Category
- travel
- Subjects
- Fiction, Memoir, Military History
- Rating
- 3.76 / 5 (193 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Scribbling the Cat : Travels with an African Soldier (2004)
- L'Afrique au coeur (2014)
- Scribbling the Cat : Travels with an African Soldier (2015)
- Scribbling the Cat : Travels with an African Soldier (2005)
- Scribbling the cat : travels with an African soldier. Alexandra Fuller (2005)
- Scribbling the Cat : Travels with an African Soldier (2014)
- Scribbling the cat : travels with an African soldier (2011)
- Scribbling the cat : travels with an African soldier (LP) (2005)
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