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The Friends Who Never Left
Fishcakes and I met in line outside the primary school hall on the first day of school. We were six years old. For a long time after that we were the kind of friends who did everything together, a fair amount of it stuff neither of us should have been doing. Then I went off to Rhodes University, and he stayed.“Fishcakes and Chop” is the story in Barking at Dogs about the December I came home from
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Barking at Dogs is an absolute gem of a book. Leon Lazarus has a remarkable gift for capturing the pure whimsy, humor, and chaos of youth, family, and friendship. I found myself laug" Read more of this review » |
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"This memoir in stories particularly resonated with me after growing up in South Africa during the book's backdrop. This warm and wonderful collection of author anecdotes hit my homesick spot with perfection! Each and every reference to a marvelous an"
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"Barking at Dogs provides a humorous yet incisive look at apartheid-era South Africa. The author plants the reader firmly in the action with vivid description of the surroundings. Yet it is the dialogue-whether it is colloquial speech of that time, or"
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“No story is ever wheeled out without being altered, just a little. If you were there and you remember things differently, you just proved the rule.”
― Barking at Dogs: Ghosts, lion dung, toast collecting, and other tales from the ragged edges of late-apartheid South Africa.
― Barking at Dogs: Ghosts, lion dung, toast collecting, and other tales from the ragged edges of late-apartheid South Africa.
“Growing old is not a given. It is a true privilege that too many of the people in my life never got to claim... Every grey hair I earn, I earn on behalf of the ones who didn't get the chance to grow into their own.”
― Barking at Dogs: Ghosts, lion dung, toast collecting, and other tales from the ragged edges of late-apartheid South Africa.
― Barking at Dogs: Ghosts, lion dung, toast collecting, and other tales from the ragged edges of late-apartheid South Africa.
“This warm summer night felt uniquely South African to me, a strange mix of serene beauty and deeply ingrained paranoia.”
― Barking at Dogs: Ghosts, lion dung, toast collecting, and other tales from the ragged edges of late-apartheid South Africa.
― Barking at Dogs: Ghosts, lion dung, toast collecting, and other tales from the ragged edges of late-apartheid South Africa.
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“Growing old is not a given. It is a true privilege that too many of the people in my life never got to claim... Every grey hair I earn, I earn on behalf of the ones who didn't get the chance to grow into their own.”
― Barking at Dogs: Ghosts, lion dung, toast collecting, and other tales from the ragged edges of late-apartheid South Africa.
― Barking at Dogs: Ghosts, lion dung, toast collecting, and other tales from the ragged edges of late-apartheid South Africa.
“No story is ever wheeled out without being altered, just a little. If you were there and you remember things differently, you just proved the rule.”
― Barking at Dogs: Ghosts, lion dung, toast collecting, and other tales from the ragged edges of late-apartheid South Africa.
― Barking at Dogs: Ghosts, lion dung, toast collecting, and other tales from the ragged edges of late-apartheid South Africa.
“This warm summer night felt uniquely South African to me, a strange mix of serene beauty and deeply ingrained paranoia.”
― Barking at Dogs: Ghosts, lion dung, toast collecting, and other tales from the ragged edges of late-apartheid South Africa.
― Barking at Dogs: Ghosts, lion dung, toast collecting, and other tales from the ragged edges of late-apartheid South Africa.
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