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Alexandra Fuller won worldwide attention, popular acclaim, and critical accolades for her memoir of her childhood in Africa, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight. This engaging follow-up explores Fuller’s parents’ childhoods and charts the trajectories of their lives through all the British couple’s experiences in war-torn Africa.
Fuller braids a multilayered narrative around the perfectly lit, Happy Valley-era Africa of her mother's childhood; the boiled cabbage grimness of her father's English childhood; and the darker, civil war- torn Africa of her own childhood. At its heart, this is the story of Fuller's mother, Nicola. Born on the Scottish Isle of Skye and raised in Kenya, Nicola holds dear the kinds of values most likely to get you hurt or killed in Africa: loyalty to blood, passion for land, and a holy belief in the restorative power of all animals. Fuller interviewed her mother at length and has captured her inimitable voice with remarkable precision. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness is as funny, terrifying, exotic, and unselfconscious as Nicola herself.
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After her father's sudden death, Alexandra Fuller realizes that if she is going to weather his loss, she will need to become the parts of him she misses most. So begins Travel Light, Move Fast, the unforgettable story of Tim Fuller, a self-exiled British black sheep who moved to Africa to fight in the Rhodesian War before settling as a banana farmer in Zambia. A man who preferred chaos to predictability and was more afraid of becoming bored than of getting lost, he taught his daughters to live as if everything needed to happen altogether, all at once - or not at all.
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Beautiful
- De Thandi Lamprecht en 05-26-21
De: Alexandra Fuller
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Leaving Before the Rains Come
- De: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrado por: Alexandra Fuller
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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As her marriage collapses, the author of the international best-seller Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight relearns the fearless ways of her father to find her own true north. Standing in the wreckage of her marriage, in her adopted country America, Alexandra Fuller revisits the continent she loves and finds in her father's harsh, simple, and uncompromising ways the key to her salvation.
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- De Silverthorne en 03-02-15
De: Alexandra Fuller
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
- An African Childhood
- De: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrado por: Lisette Lecat
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe. The daughter of hardworking, yet strikingly unconventional English-bred immigrants, Alexandra arrives in Africa at the tender age of two. She moves through life with a hardy resilience, even as a bloody war approaches. Narrator Lisette Lecat reads this remarkable memoir of a family clinging to a harsh landscape and the dying tenets of colonialism.
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An African Childhood of Harrowing Proportions
- De Sara en 10-12-15
De: Alexandra Fuller
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Scribbling the Cat
- Travels with an African Soldier
- De: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrado por: Lisette Lecat
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
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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.
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Astonishing
- De G. Robinson en 06-27-04
De: Alexandra Fuller
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The Legend of Colton H. Bryant
- De: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrado por: Ed Sala
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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Colton H. Bryant loves Wyoming and loves life. And Wyoming loves him back - it's got everything he needs. He spends his school days dreaming about where he'll go fishing or how many jackrabbits he might be able to catch that night.
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Another Disappointment
- De Maura en 03-08-10
De: Alexandra Fuller
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Quiet Until the Thaw
- A Novel
- De: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrado por: Alma Cuervo
- Duración: 4 h y 44 m
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Lakota Oglala Sioux Nation, South Dakota. Two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson, though bound by blood and by land, find themselves at odds as they grapple with the implications of their shared heritage. When escalating anger toward the injustices, historical and current, inflicted upon the Lakota people by the federal government leads to tribal divisions and infighting, the cousins go in separate directions: Rick chooses the path of peace; You Choose, violence.
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Loved this best narration ever
- De Liliana Condon en 06-04-21
De: Alexandra Fuller
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Fi
- A Memoir
- De: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrado por: Alexandra Fuller
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It’s the middle of the summer before her fiftieth birthday and Alexandra is just barely hanging on. Grieving her father and pining for her home country of Zimbabwe, chafing and straining against the stresses and strictures of midlife as a mother and ex-wife, and piecing her way through a disastrous relationship with a younger woman that lurches and buckles, but never quite breaks. And then—suddenly and incomprehensibly—her son Fi, at 21 years old, dies in his sleep. What happens next is what Alexandra details in this book.
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Lifting the fog
- De Nina G. en 04-20-24
De: Alexandra Fuller
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
- A Memoir of Africa
- De: Peter Godwin
- Narrado por: Peter Godwin
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downward into the jaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator. And yet long after their comfortable lifestyle had been shattered and millions were fleeing, his parents refuse to leave, steadfast in their allegiance to the failed state that has been their adopted home for 50 years.
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Worth the listen.
- De SEE en 09-06-21
De: Peter Godwin
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Saving Agnes
- De: Rachel Cusk
- Narrado por: Alexandra Fuller
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The story of a young British woman's first affair and entry into adulthood.
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most boring book I've ever read.
- De Lee C. Bendig en 05-28-15
De: Rachel Cusk
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Dream
- The Art and Science of Slumber
- De: Scott Carney
- Narrado por: Scott Carney
- Duración: 3 h y 31 m
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Why do so many of us have trouble falling asleep? Why do our thoughts spin in wild directions after dark? More important: why do we dream? In this groundbreaking new book, investigative journalist and anthropologist Scott Carney sets out to discover how the sleeping world reverberates in the waking one. Unlock the power of the immune system at the same time you dig deeply into the source of creativity. Discover the evolutionary process that forges both memory and emotions.
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A balanced book on that phenomenon we take for granted
- De Justin Weiss en 01-10-24
De: Scott Carney
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The Enlightenment Trap
- Obsession, Madness and Death on Diamond Mountain
- De: Scott Carney
- Narrado por: Scott Carney
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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In 2012, 38-year-old Ian Thorson's search for spiritual transcendence ended in tragedy on a remote Arizona mountaintop. His wife, a woman anointed as a goddess by an eccentric Buddhist community, held him in her arms as he slowly died from dehydration and dysentery. For Scott Carney, a journalist and anthropologist who lived in India for six years, Thorson's death was just the most recent iteration of an unspoken epidemic that connected intensive meditation and mental instability.
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Sure you want to reach enlightenment?
- De Kjetil Alisøy Søvig en 01-29-24
De: Scott Carney
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My So-Called Love Life
- De: Lauren Blakely
- Narrado por: Vanessa Edwin, Sebastian York
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I’ve got a list of people I absolutely don’t ever want to be stuck with on a boat, or a plane, or a train, and it starts and ends with the broody, grumpy, too-sexy-for-my-own good Axel Huxley. Also known as this romance novelist’s number one nemesis. The man is legendary for his mighty pen and his even mightier scowl. I tried to work together with the cocky thriller writer once upon a time, but the two of us are like vodka and good decisions. We don’t play well together.
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✫✫ 4 Stars ✫✫
- De ❤️Cyndi Marie❤️🎧Audiobook Addicts🎧 en 03-02-23
De: Lauren Blakely
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Isak Dinesen
- The Life of a Storyteller
- De: Judith Thurman
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 21 h y 23 m
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Isak Dinesen earned international fame for Seven Gothic Tales and Out of Africa, and other stories that skillfully combine elements of fable, social conflict, and psychological drama. She was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize. Yet the story of her life - her travels, affairs, and friendships - remains the greatest story of all.
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over-written
- De Jacqui Good en 10-19-18
De: Judith Thurman
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The Wife You Know
- De: Chad Zunker
- Narrado por: Thor Knai, Helen Laser
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Widower Luke Driskell didn’t expect to fall in love and marry again so quickly. But Ashley and her daughter, Joy, are special—a quality borne out when Ashley rushes into a burning day-care center to save the children. Immediately she’s a social media sensation and hero. Then, just as suddenly, Ashley and Joy disappear into the bitterly cold night. With no trace of their whereabouts, Luke begins a panicked investigation. Alarmingly, he can find no proof that the woman he loves even exists. Left behind: just a hidden stash of fake IDs. Different names. Different cities. Same haunted face.
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Great story but the author has an annoying habit
- De LoriinKY en 05-16-24
De: Chad Zunker
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The Wrong Bride
- The Windsors
- De: Catharina Maura
- Narrado por: Sebastian York, Lucy Rivers
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
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When her sister doesn’t show up on her wedding day, Raven has no choice but to take her place — but marriage to Ares Windsor is nothing short of torture. The elusive billionaire media mogul is the man she’s always loved… yet he’s only ever had eyes for her sister.
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Cheap soap opera
- De Pol.Va en 06-02-23
De: Catharina Maura
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Only the Brave
- De: Danielle Steel
- Narrado por: Samuel Roukin
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Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, Sophia must take charge of her younger sister Theresa, look after her father and the household, while also volunteering at his hospital after school. Meanwhile, Hitler's rise to power and the violence in her very own town have Sophia concerned, but only her mother is willing to share her fears openly. After tragedy strikes and her mother dies, Sophia becomes increasingly involved in the resistance.
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The whole story!
- De Jeanne Koos en 05-04-24
De: Danielle Steel
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A Killing on the Hill
- A Thriller
- De: Robert Dugoni
- Narrado por: Robert Dugoni
- Duración: 11 h y 29 m
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Seattle, 1933. The city is in the grips of the Great Depression, Prohibition, and vice. Cutting his teeth on a small-time beat, hungry and ambitious young reporter William “Shoe” Shumacher gets a tip that could change his career. There’s been a murder at a social club on Profanity Hill—an underworld magnet for vice crimes only a privileged few can afford. The story is going to be front-page news, and Shoe is the first reporter on the scene.
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A Killing on the Hill
- De Danny Harr en 04-10-24
De: Robert Dugoni
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Out of Africa
- De: Isak Dinesen
- Narrado por: Julie Harris
- Duración: 2 h y 57 m
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Danish countess Karen Blixon, known as Isak Dineson, ran a coffee plantation in Kenya in the years when Africa remained a romantic and formidable continent to most Europeans. Out of Africa is her account of her life there, with stories of her respectful relationships with the Masai, Kikuyu, and Somali natives who work on her land; the European friends who visit her; and the imposing permanence of the wild, high land itself.
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I did not expect to enjoy this
- De Tyler Tanner en 10-08-14
De: Isak Dinesen
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
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- Janet Tarasovic
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Great by both ear and eye
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Fuller's white British-born parents loved their life in colonial Africa until the war for independence forced them to leave Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, but not Africa. Their story reads like a pioneer saga, full of reckless courage and passionate relationships set against a backdrop of natural beauty and political turmoil. In this second story of her childhood, Fuller, who now lives in America, paints a vivid picture of her inimitable mother, who was as devoted to her Scottish heritage as to the African land she farmed with her husband. If only Katherine Hepburn were alive to play her on screen! We see the mother's British-colonial sensibilities and experiences viewed through her daughter's more critical but loving eyes. I kept wanting to take a break to learn more about the Rhodesian civil war, but I couldn't leave the book. Both Amato, the reader (her some-kind-of-British accent charmed my American ears), and Fuller bring the story and characters alive, balancing tragedy with humor. After listening to this, I began reading Fuller's earlier memoir, "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight" on my Kindle, and then picked up "Scribbling the Cat," about a white African soldier, in old-fashioned book form. Reading in print helped me appreciate Fuller's lyrical style and colorful slang ("Cat" has a glossary in the back), but I plan to listen to them all. In any format they're all terrific--you learn, you laugh, you are moved. What more can a reader ask?
What other book might you compare Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness to and why?
"West with the Night" (the first audiobook I ever listened to--I was hooked) and Jeannette Walls' "Half-Broke Horses"
What about Bianca Amato???s performance did you like?
Her skill with reading dialogue, her light touch with humor, and her ability to shift tone subtly, without melodrama, during heavier parts.
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- 05-14-12
Loved Cocktail Hour
Where does Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
One of my favorites.
What did you like best about this story?
Having traveled a little in Zimbabwe I was fascinated with the country and especially how it transitioned from British-led Rhodesia.
Which scene was your favorite?
Nicola (the author's mother) winning her first horse show on a borrowed horse that no-one else could manage,
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Yes, there are three particularly devastating events, but listing them would be a spoiler.
Any additional comments?
The book is written from the POV of the grown daughter who returns to Africa to interview her parents and track down her mother's colorful past. It is beautifully read by Bianca Amato. I kept thinking the author herself was telling the story.
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- Joanna
- 08-29-19
Great book
wonderful book and engaging narration. very sorry to come to the end. loved this story.
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- CFrech
- 05-22-12
Extraordinary family living African history A+'
Where does Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
One of the best. I tell people it is a bit eccentric at times and was a great listen. The narrator reminds me the actress, Kristin Scott Thomas. The narration opened up the story in a very grand way.
What other book might you compare Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness to and why?
Gone with the wind
Which character – as performed by Bianca Amato – was your favorite?
The mother, main character.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No, it was more fun enjoying it slowly.
Any additional comments?
Don't be scared off by the African war element. It was really lovely overall and I recommend it.
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- Making my great escape
- 04-28-15
Not much difference from last book
Fuller picks up from her prior book and elaborates on her mother gritty mother who is displeased with how the family is portrayed in the book. Nicolette faced many hardships, and was defiantly a colorful person. I just felt like there was a lot recycled material from the prior book, and I was kind of tired of it all. On to West With Night ;)
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- Carolyn
- 09-21-11
Musical
Bianca reads Ms. Fuller's story as if it were her own. This clever book is full of insight to central Africa history along personal experiences of adaptation. I loved the use of humor that lead the listener through hard time. I thoroughly enjoyed it and look forward to reading Ms. Fuller's other "awful books"!!!!!
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- Judy L.
- 06-20-21
entertaining until the last sentence
Descriptive and eloquently written in oh so British a manner. Very fun listen and with great color. One can see the land.
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- Colleen
- 07-23-12
A wonderful story-beautifully narrated!
After having listened to "Don't Lets Go To The Dogs Tonight", I was delighted to see the story continue with "Under The Tree of Forgetfullness". This second book was excellent; as it was able to take you deeper into the incidents and personalities of the Fuller Family! The true life story about the authors life while growing up in Africa was engaging, witty, and very informational. The narration by Bianca Amato was top notch! Bianca is a brilliant narrator whose voice and song captivate you while drawing you into the story. Under The Tree of Forgetfullness was a 5 Star experience for me all the way around!
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- Cynthia
- 07-17-15
Not what I expected
But so much more. I expected a quirky story of a white European family living in Africa. That's what this is, alright, intertwined with the story of the traumatic growing pains which accompanied the declarations of independence by several African countries in the 1960's, tragic accidents, lack of good medical care, grief, and depression. But overall, the story of courage to keep going, to keep living, to keep working, loving, moving forward. And ... to have another glass of wine. Beautifully read (and sung)!
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- Jenee
- 03-29-18
Great Story and Entertaining
I love the way this book was written and the narration was fantastic. The detailed descriptions of her parents made it as if I could see them and knew their personalities. Made me laugh and made me cry and I can remember some of the political changes that happened during the timeframe of story . Not ever realizing how other countries and peoples lives were affected .
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