Like all the veterans of the war, K has blood on his hands. For his war, like all wars, was a brutal one, marked by racial strife, jungle battles, brutal tortures, and the murdering of innocent civilians. Yet he is also a born-again Christian, given to weeping when he recollects his failed romantic life and welling up inside with memories of battle. Tattooed, battle-scarred, and weathered by farm work, K is a lion of a man, feral and bulletproof. He is, seemingly, a man of contradictions. With the same fiercely beautiul prose that won her such acclaim for Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Fuller here recounts her friendship with K. Nonetheless, Fuller began her strange friendship with the man she calls K, a white African and veteran of the Rhodesian War. Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him: "Curiosity scribbled the cat, " he told Bo. When Alexandra "Bo" Fuller was in Zambia a few years ago visiting her parents, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger".
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