Alexandra Fuller Libros

In this new collection from Annie Leibovitz, one of the most influential photographers of our time, iconic portraits sit side by side never-before-published photographs. Afterword by Annie Leibovitz. Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005-2016 is the photographer's follow-up to her two landmark books, Annie Leibovitz: Photographs, 1970-1990 and A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005. In this new collection, Leibovitz has captured the most influential and compelling figures of the last decade in the style that has made her one of the most beloved talents of our time. Each of the photographs documents contemporary culture with an artist's eye, wit, and an uncanny ability to personalize even the most recognizable and distinguished figures.

After her father's sudden death, Alexandra Fuller realizes that if she is going to weather his loss, she will need to become the parts of him she misses most. So begins Travel Light, Move Fast, the unforgettable story of Tim Fuller, a self-exiled black sheep who moved to Africa to fight in the Rhodesian Bush War before settling as a banana farmer in Zambia. A man who preferred chaos to predictability and who was more afraid of becoming bored than of getting lost, he taught his daughters to live as if everything needed to happen all together, all at once -- or not at all. Now, as she and her mother return to his farm and contend with his overwhelming absence, Fuller recounts her childhood chasing after him and takes in satiable appetite for life to heart. Here, in Fuller's Africa, is a story of joy, resilience, and vitality, from one of our finest writers

This is the story of the author's childhood in the 1970s in Rhodesia.

Traces the stories of the author's parents' respective childhoods in Kenya and England, recounts her own upbringing in Africa, and offers insight into the impact of their beliefs and the waning of the British empire on her parents' marriage.

“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexandra Fuller’s open, vivid new memoir, Fi . It’s midsummer in Wyoming and Alexandra is barely hanging on.  Grieving her father and pining for her home country of Zimbabwe, reeling from a midlife breakup, freshly sober and piecing her way uncertainly through a volatile new relationship with a younger woman, Alexandra vows to get herself back on even keel.  And then – suddenly and incomprehensibly - her son Fi, at 21 years old, dies in his sleep.No stranger to loss - young siblings, a parent, a home country - Alexandra is nonetheless leveled. At the same time, she is painfully aware that she cannot succumb and abandon her two surviving daughters as her mother before her had done. From a sheep wagon deep in the mountains of Wyoming to a grief sanctuary in New Mexico to a silent meditation retreat in Alberta, Canada, Alexandra journeys up and down the spine of the Rocky Mountains in an attempt to find how to grieve herself whole. There is no answer, and there are countless answers – in poetry, in rituals and routines, in nature and in the indigenous wisdom she absorbed as a child in Zimbabwe. By turns disarming, devastating and unexpectedly, blessedly funny, Alexandra recounts the wild medicine of painstakingly grieving a child in a culture that has no instructions for it.  

When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller visited her parents in Zambia for Christmas, she inquired about a nearby banana farmer known as a "tough bugger." Her father's warning to avoid him—"Curiosity scribbled the cat"—didn't deter her from forming an unusual friendship with K, a white African and Rhodesian war veteran. In her beautifully crafted prose, Fuller explores this complex relationship. K is a man of contradictions: a tattooed, battle-scarred figure, both feral and resilient, yet also a born-again Christian who weeps over his failed romances and is haunted by memories of war. His experiences were brutal, marked by racial conflict, jungle battles, and the suffering of innocents, leaving him with blood on his hands. Together, Fuller and K embark on a journey through Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique to revisit war scenes and meet fellow veterans. This journey into the past is filled with somber reflections and unexpected humor. Fuller's narrative offers an unbiased, unsentimental view of men grappling with their wartime actions and the struggle to reconcile with their pasts. Through these men, she provides insight into life in Africa, a land fraught with challenges that make its inhabitants both hardened and vulnerable. The book presents a haunting exploration of war, Africa, and the fragile boundaries of sanity.

Memoáry Alexandry Fullerové jsou víc než jen příběhem o rozpadajícím se manželství. Autorka vypráví, jak v dětství žila na farmě v bývalé Rhodesii a jako mladá žena se cítila být spíš Afričankou, ač jí v žilách koluje britská krev. Předkládá bystré úvahy a originální postřehy skvělé pozorovatelky zažívající kulturní šok poté, co se z Afriky přestěhovala do Ameriky. A v neposlední řadě opěvuje krásu, divokost a bezprostřednost milované africké vlasti. Text se valí jako rozvodněná Zambezi – nechte se i vy strhnout proudem poutavého vyprávění!

From bestselling memoirist Alexandra Fuller, a debut novel. Dakota du Sud, États-Unis. Deux cousins amérindiens, Rick Overlooking Horse et You Choose Watson, liés par le sang et la terre, se retrouvent pourtant en conflit. La colère gronde dans la réserve à cause des injustices infligées au peuple lakota par le gouvernement fédéral, et les deux hommes prennent des directions opposées. Rick choisit celle de la paix ; You Choose, celle de la violence. Dans ce récit magistral, Alexandra Fuller évoque avec poésie et sagesse la beauté secrète des grandes plaines nord-américaines et le destin des Amérindiens qui y vivent toujours ; une existence cadencée par les saisons et par les rituels de leurs ancêtres.

Memoáry Alexandry Fullerové jsou víc než jen příběhem o rozpadajícím se manželství. Autorka vypráví, jak v dětství žila na farmě v bývalé Rhodesii a jako mladá žena se cítila být spíš Afričankou, ač jí v žilách koluje britská krev. Předkládá bystré úvahy a originální postřehy skvělé pozorovatelky zažívající kulturníšok poté, co se z Afriky přestěhovala do Ameriky. A v neposlední řadě opěvuje krásu, divokost a bezprostřednost milované africké vlasti. Text se valí jako rozvodněná Zambezi – nechte se i vy strhnout proudem poutavého vyprávění!