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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 for being a 'tough bugger'. Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him: 'Curiosity scribbled the cat,' he told Bo. 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 beautiul prose that won her such acclaim for Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Fuller here recounts her friendship with K.

He is, seemingly, a man of contradictions. Tattooed, battle-scarred, and weathered by farm work, K 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 welling up inside with memories of battle. For his war, like all wars, was a brutal one, marked by racial strife, jungle battles, brutal tortures, and the murdering of innocent c

Scribbling the Cat

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      Publisher Pan Macmillan
      Published 1/16/2014 12:01:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9781447262534
      978-1447262534
      ISBN-10 1447262530

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      Book Synopsis

      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 for being a 'tough bugger'. Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him: 'Curiosity scribbled the cat,' he told Bo. 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 beautiul prose that won her such acclaim for Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Fuller here recounts her friendship with K.

      He is, seemingly, a man of contradictions. Tattooed, battle-scarred, and weathered by farm work, K 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 welling up inside with memories of battle. For his war, like all wars, was a brutal one, marked by racial strife, jungle battles, brutal tortures, and the murdering of innocent c

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