Scribbling the cat - Alexandra Fuller

When Alexandra 'Bo' Fuller returns to her parents's farm in Zambia, she meets their neighbour,'K', a hauntingly beautiful creature with a talent for survival. Helplessly fascinated by this man of extremes, she becomes enmeshed in the stories of his life. Fuller and K decide to travel from Zambia through Zimbabwe and Mozambique to visit the scenes of the war and to meet other veterans. What results from Fuller's journey is a remarkably unbiased glimpse at life in Africa, a land that besets its creatures with pests, plagues and natural disasters, making the people there at once more hardened and more vulnerable than elsewhere.