When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, 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; he told Bo: "Curiosity scribbled the cat." 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 beautiful prose that won her acclaim for Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Fuller here recounts her friendship with K.
K is, seemingly, a man of...
When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - FINALIST, GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK PRIZE Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader's Circle for author chats and more. -This is not a book you read just once, but a tale of terrible beauty to get lost in over and over.---Newsweek -By turns mischievous and openhearted, earthy and soaring . . . hair-raising, horrific, and thrilling.---The New Yorker In Don't...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - FINALIST, ...
Touted by its 1885 publisher as "the most amazing story ever written," King Solomon's Mines was one of the bestselling novels of the nineteenth century. H. Rider Haggard's thrilling saga of elephant hunter Allan Quatermain and his search for fabled treasure is more than just an adventure story, though: As Alexandra Fuller explains in her Introduction, in its vivid portrayal of the alliances and battles of white colonials and African tribesmen, King Solomon's Mines "brings us the world of extremes, of the absurdly tall tales and of the illogical loyalty between disparate people...
Touted by its 1885 publisher as "the most amazing story ever written," King Solomon's Mines was one of the bestselling novels of the nineteenth...