Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier [Idioma Inglés] - Tapa blanda

Searing, at times intoxicating prose . . . striking, intimately revealing . . . ("The Washington Post") "Scribbling the Cat" defies easy definition . . . [a] wild-hearted beauty of a book. ("O, The Oprah Magazine")

When Alexandra "Bo" Fuller was in Zambia a few years ago visiting her parents, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known as being a "tough bugger". Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him: "Curiosity scibbled the cat, " he told her. Nonetheless, Fuller began her strange friendhip with the man she calls K, a white African and veteran of the Rhodesian War. A man of contradictions, K is battle-scarred and work-weathered, a born-again Christian and given to weeping for the failure of his romantic life and the burden of his memories. Driven by K's these memories of the war, they decide to enter the heart of darkness in the most literal way, by travelling from Zambia through Zimbabwe and Mozambique to visit the scenes of the war and to meet other veterans.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.