Description
Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller is a powerful work of narrative nonfiction that explores memory, war and identity through a journey across southern Africa.
In this deeply personal travel memoir, Fuller accompanies a former Rhodesian soldier known only as “K” as they retrace the landscapes of the Rhodesian Bush War through Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. As K confronts the memories that have haunted him for decades, Fuller examines the lasting psychological impact of conflict, the complexities of race and belonging, and the contradictions of colonial and post-colonial Africa. Combining travel writing, biography and history, she presents a thoughtful and unsentimental account that resists easy answers while offering insight into one of southern Africa’s most turbulent periods.
Winner of the 2005 Borders Original Voices Award for nonfiction, Scribbling the Cat is recommended for readers interested in African history, military memoirs and literary travel writing.
