Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier (repost)
Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier By Alexandra Fuller
Publisher: Pen..guin 2005 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0143035010 | PDF | 3 MB
Publisher: Pen..guin 2005 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0143035010 | PDF | 3 MB
Thomas Wolfe's trusted axiom about not being able to go home again gets a compelling spin through the African veldt in Alexandra Fuller's Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier. Fuller (Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight : An African Childhood) journeys through modern Zambia, to battlefields in Zimbabwe and Mozambique with the scarred veteran of the Rhodesian Wars she identifies only as "K." Intrigued by the mysterious neighbor of her parent's Zambian fish farm and further enticed by her father's warning that "curiosity scribbled the cat" ("scribbling" is Afrikaans slang for "killing"), Fuller embarks on a journey that covers as much cratered psychic landscape as it does African bush country. Though she and "K" are both African by family roots rather than blood, she quickly discovers that 30 years of civil war have scarred them–and the indigenous peoples they encounter–in markedly different ways.