{"product_id":"9781447275084-dont-lets-go-to-the-dogs-tonight","title":"Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA story of civil war; of a quixotic battle against nature and loss; and of a family's unbreakable bond with a continent which came to define, shape, scar and heal them\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an introduction by author Anne Enright.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e First Book award, a story of civil war and a family's unbreakable bond.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the daughter of white settlers in the civil war in 1970s Rhodesia (renamed Zimbabwe at independence), Alexandra Fuller remembers her childhood in this extraordinary and devastating memoir. \u003ci\u003eDon't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight\u003c\/i\u003e is the astonishingly clear-eyed story of a family living through a civil war, of a quixotic battle with nature and loss. It is the story of the end of empire, of prejudice and privilege, too much drink and not many rules, violence and shattering grief. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003eFirst Book Award, Alexandra Fuller's classic memoir of an African childhood is suffused with laughter and warmth even amid disaster. Unsentimental and unflinching, but always enchanting, \u003ci\u003eDon't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943865200737,"sku":"9781447275084","price":8.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_26750173.jpg?v=1721225272","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781447275084-dont-lets-go-to-the-dogs-tonight","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}