Alexandra Fuller Bücher

Alexandra Fuller ist zwei Jahre alt, als ihre Eltern zu Beginn der Siebzigerjahre beschließen, England zu verlassen und nach Rhodesien, das heutige Simbabwe, auszuwandern. Es ist ein hartes Leben, das die Fullers auf ihrer Farm erwartet, und bereits als kleines Mädchen muss Alexandra viele tragische Schicksalsschläge hinnehmen. Dennoch empfindet sie eine tiefe Verbundenheit mit diesem exotischen Land, das ihr immer auch ein Gefühl von Wärme und Geborgenheit zu geben vermag.

Die beeindruckende Geschichte einer mutigen Frau, die mit ihrer Familie in Afrika das Glück sucht Nach „Unter afrikanischer Sonne“ kehrt Alexandra Fuller in das Afrika ihrer Kindheit zurück und erzählt die ebenso bewegte wie bewegende Geschichte ihrer Eltern. Nicola und Tim Fuller wandern anfang der Siebzigerjahre nach Afrika aus, verheißungsvoll liegt der Kontinent vor ihnen. Doch schon nach kurzer Zeit ereignen sich Unfälle und Tragödien innerhalb der Familie, politische Unruhen und Bürgerkriege erschüttern den Kontinent. Im Zentrum von Alexandra Fullers neuem Buch steht ihre Mutter, die es auf unnachahmliche Weise immer wieder schafft, den Widrigkeiten des Lebens mit Mut und Entschlossenheit zu begegnen, um dann, die Uzi unter den Arm geklemmt, zur nächsten Kostümparty zu fahren. Eine ganz besondere Hommage an eine ganz besondere Frau – und an ein Afrika, das unter die Haut geht.

Alexandra Fuller, die in „Unter afrikanischer Sonne“ von ihrer Jugend in Rhodesien erzählte, kehrt nach Afrika zurück, nach Sambia, wo ihre Eltern nun leben. Dort lernt sie K kennen, einen weißen Farmer, der als Soldat im rhodesischen Bürgerkrieg kämpfte. Alexandra ist fasziniert von Ks Geschichte; sie will wissen, wie der Krieg ihn geprägt hat, und bittet ihn, mit ihr zu den Kriegsschauplätzen zu fahren. So begeben sich beide auf eine Reise, während der sich Alexandra Fullers Liebe zu Afrika mit all seinen Schrecken und in all seiner Schönheit einmal mehr beweist.

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With an introduction by Anne EnrightShortlisted for the Guardian First Book award, a story of civil war and a family's unbreakable bond.How 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.As the daughter of white settlers in war-torn 1970s Rhodesia, Alexandra Fuller remembers a time when a schoolgirl was as likely to carry a shotgun as a satchel. This is her story - of a civil war, of a quixotic battle with nature and loss, and of a family's unbreakable bond with the continent that came to define, scar and heal them.Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award in 2002, Alexandra Fuller's classic memoir of an African childhood is suffused with laughter and warmth even amid disaster. Unsentimental and unflinching, but always enchanting, it is the story of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time.

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When her father becomes gravely ill on holiday in Budapest, Alexandra Fuller rushes to join her mother at his bedside where they see out his last days together. As they carry his ashes home to their family farm in Zambia and begin to grieve together, Fuller realises that if she is going to weather her father's loss, she will need to become the parts of him that she misses most. A master of time and memory, Fuller moves seamlessly between the days and months following her father's death, and her memories of a childhood spent running after him in southern and central Africa. And her own life begins to change. She faces seemingly irreparable family fallout, new love found and lost, and eventually further, unimaginable bereavement, holding fast to the lessons her father taught her about how to survive, whatever life throws at you.

A delicately calibrated tuning fork, resonating at a cosmic pitch...awe- inspiring...This is an ardent, original and beautifully wrought book. - The New York Times Book Review Fuller achieves what every creative writer with political and social concerns hopes to achieve, where the political issues of her text do not overwhelm her story with a heavy hand, and yet they are simultaneously a part of the visible and invisible forces at work on the characters' journeys. And what journeys they undertake... In telling a story whose form embraces the Lakota Sioux's philosophies and distinctive life cycles, Quiet Until the Thaw doesn't just give us an authentic tale of a Native American people's journey. It offers up a distinctive view of America, and perhaps even pleas for a new understanding of how great American novels can be written. - Paste Magazine Alexandra Fuller's first novel, Quiet Until the Thaw, is a fearless book. . . with trenchant wit and appropriate rage, Fuller dodges cliché. Quiet Until the Thaw is not so much a conventional narrative as a progression of vignettes, less a tale to be read than a chronicle to be heard. The voice of the storyteller, Fuller's voice - by turns acerbic, compassionate and wry - imprints us almost more than the story she tells. And her gaze, though narrowly focused on a handful of Oglala Sioux characters, illuminates much more than their lives. Beyond spanning relatively large swaths of time, the book covers many physical territories as well - from the Rez in South Dakota to Vietnam, from Paris Disneyland to the moon. And in these snippets of cultural conquest, it is as much a history of (white) American capitalism in the 20th century as of a people oppressed by it...An essential book.- WBUR's The ARTery Alexandra Fuller has always been a brave writer. We count on her bare-boned, carefully-crafted truths laced with wit and wisdom. But in her debut novel, Fuller calls upon her imagination to explore what binds us together rather than what pulls us apart. Quiet Until the Thaw is a literary risk and a revelation. -Terry Tempest Williams, author of The Hour of Land One moment I am crying in sorrow, the next laughing and on the same page I am cringing. Honest fiction that exposes the reality of the difficulties of the Lakota Way. -Richard B. Williams, former president and CEO of the American Indian College Fund, and member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe Fuller's keen sense of engagement with a land 'to which you now don't belong,' and her place as an outsider, make her a sympathetic storyteller. Her prose shimmers and vibrates with life in this excellent novel. - Publishers Weekly Beloved for the string of gorgeous memoirs begun with Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Fuller here depicts the Lakota people of South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, particularly two cousins in conflict. Fluidly written, with no sanctimony and plenty of dark humor - Library Journal Fuller writes unhurriedly and with an economy of expression that is nonetheless evocative... what is explored paints a vivid picture. - Bookpage Fuller's kinship with Lakota traditions in this novel is palpable. - Booklist A lyrical tale of life on the Rez. . . A tender, wry homage to Native American wisdom and lore.- Kirkus Reviews

The sequel to the bestselling Don't Let's Go to the Dogs TonightBorn in England and uprooted to southern Africa as a toddler by her parents, Alexandra Fuller experienced a unique upbringing - both coloured with tragedy and joy - against the backdrop of the Rhodesian wars.