The social marketplace for new and used books.

Get started

Learn to sell
Learn to buy
Buy textbooks
Sign up
Buy a giftcard
For the authors

Support

Help
Track a shipment
Terms of use
Privacy policy
Cookies policy

Company

About us
Work with us
Give feedback
Categories

Contact us

Fast delivery with

Safe payments by

Visa
Mastercard
Google Pay

© 2026 Bookis AS

English

Sweden

Region is based on IP address

  1. Home
  2. Sociology and anthropology
  1. Home
  2. Genres
  3. Sociology and anthropology
Cocktail hour under the tree of forgetfulness

Hardcover • 2011 • English

Cocktail hour under the tree of forgetfulness

By Alexandra Fuller

0 Ratings • 0.0 of 5

‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌

About the book

In this sequel to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller returns to Africa and the story of her unforgettable family. In Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, Alexandra 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 o...Show more

Biography, Literature and Literary studies
Biography and non-fiction prose
Society and Social Sciences

Book details

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

Cocktail hour under the tree of forgetfulness

Format

Hardcover

Shippping and returns

Shipping

Used books are shipped by the seller. Expected delivery after package is sent is 2-4 days.

Returns

Contact the seller after delivery.

Reviews · 0

0 Ratings • 0.0 of 5

You might also like

The Island of Missing Trees

The Island of Missing Trees

Elif Shafak

Travel Light, Move Fast

Travel Light, Move Fast

Alexandra Fuller

Somebody I Used to Know

Somebody I Used to Know

Wendy Mitchell

In the Time We Lost

In the Time We Lost

Carrie Hope Fletcher

The Confession

The Confession

Jessie Burton

Where the Light Gets In

Where the Light Gets In

Lucy Dillon

Swing Time A Novel

Swing Time A Novel

Zadie Smith

At the existentialist café

At the existentialist café

Sarah Bakewell

Hot Milk

Hot Milk

Deborah Levy

The End of the Story

The End of the Story

Lydia Davis

Cocktails för tre

Cocktails för tre

Sophie Kinsella

Better Together

Better Together

Sheila O’Flanagan

Battersea Park Road to Paradise

Battersea Park Road to Paradise

Isabel Losada

Foreign Fruit

Foreign Fruit

Jojo Moyes

44 Scotland Street

44 Scotland Street

Alexander McCall Smith

Second Chance

Second Chance

Jane Green

Bordeaux Housewives

Bordeaux Housewives

Daisy Waugh

Human Croquet

Human Croquet

Kate Atkinson

Remembering Babylon

Remembering Babylon

David Malouf

Fables of the Irish Intelligentsia

Fables of the Irish Intelligentsia

Nina Fitzpatrick

The Break

The Break

Marian Keyes