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Scribbling the Cat by Alexandra Fuller Book Summary
When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger." Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him; he told Bo: "Curiosity scribbled the cat." Nonetheless, Fuller began her strange friendship with the man she calls K, a white African and veteran of the Rhodesian war. With the same fiercely beautiful prose that won her acclaim for Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Fuller here recounts her friendship with K.
K is, seemingly, a man of contradictions: tattooed, battle scarred, and weathered by farm work, he is a lion of a man, feral and bulletproof. Yet he is also a born-again Christian, given to weeping when he recollects his failed romantic life, and more than anything else welling up inside with memories of battle. For his war, like all wars, was a brutal one, marked by racial strife, jungle battles, unimaginable tortures, and the murdering of innocent civilians—and K, like all the veterans of the war, has blood on his hands.
Driven by K's memories, Fuller and K decide to enter the heart of darkness in the most literal way—by traveling from Zambia through Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) and Mozambique to visit the scenes of the war and to meet other veterans. It is a strange journey into the past, one marked at once by somber reflections and odd humor and featuring characters such as Mapenga, a fellow veteran who lives with his pet lion on a little island in the middle of a lake and is known to cope with his personal demons by refusing to speak for days on end. What results from Fuller's journey is a remarkably unbiased and unsentimental glimpse of men who have killed, mutilated, tortured, and scrambled to survive during wartime and who now must attempt to live with their past and live past their sins. In these men, too, we get a glimpse of life in Africa, a land that besets its creatures with pests, plagues, and natural disasters, making the people there at once more hardened and more vulnerable than elsewhere.
Scribbling the Cat is an engrossing and haunting look at war, Africa, and the lines of sanity.
Book Name | Scribbling the Cat |
Genre | Biographies & Memoirs |
Author | Alexandra Fuller |
Published | 03 May 2004, Monday |
Language | English |
E-Book Size | 3.05 MB |
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Gripping, Masterful Storyteller. I admit, I've become completely hooked on Alexandra Fuller's writing, politics and humor. This, her most haunting work, is powerful, sad, thoughtful and brutally honest tale that touches your soul. As a writer, she stands among the very elite. A must read. Highly recommended.
Scribbling the cat. Ms fuller is so descriptive I am able to feel the landscape of every word.... Please write more! I need more books!
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Summary of Scribbling the Cat by Alexandra Fuller
The Scribbling the Cat book written by Alexandra Fuller was published on 03 May 2004, Monday in the Biographies & Memoirs category. A total of 115 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.
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