Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness - SIGNED - Alexandra Fuller

1st Edition. Signed by Author. Published by Simon and Schuster, 2011.
 
General but very light wear on covers of book. Back cover at the top a small tear of 5mm near the outer corner. Plastic cover splitting from the corner at the bottom of back cover. A signed, clean, clear and unread copy.

Nicola Fuller and her husband were a glamorous and optimistic couple and East Africa lay before them with the promise of all its perfect light, even as the British Empire in which they both believed waned. They had everything, including two golden children - a girl and a boy.
Tragedy visited them then in Africa and they returned to England where the author was born before they returned to Rhodesia and to the civil war.
In their old age the Fullers lived on a banana and fish farm in the Zambezi Valley, building their ramshackle dining room under the Tree of Forgetfulness, which in local custom is the place to resolve disputes. In the spirit of this forgetfulness Nicala finally forgot but did not forgive, all her enemies, including her daughter.
Funny, tragic, terrifying, exotic and utterly unself-conscious, this is a story of survival and madness, love and war, passion and compassion.
Following the ghosts and dreams of memory, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness is Alexandra Fuller at her very best.

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