Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, a memoir of life with Alexandra Fuller and her family on a farm in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe.) [1] After the Rhodesian Bush War ended in 1980, the Fullers moved to Malawi, and then to Zambia. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize in 2002, was a New York Times Notable Book for 2002 and a finalist for The Guardian's First Book Award, an award given to the best regional novel of the year.

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Film adaptation

A 2024 film adaptation of the memoir directed by Embeth Davidtz was selected to screen as a Gala Presentation at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Kakutani, Michiko (21 December 2001). "Growing Up in Rhodesia's Terror, Turmoil and Beauty". New York Times. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  2. ↑ "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight". Toronto International Film Festival. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
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