The Last Resort, (Paperback)

from Stbalbach

The news is Zimbabwe kills white farmers and has ludicrous inflation rates. Mugabe is a basket case horror show of mismanagement. This memoir by Douglas Rogers, who was born and raised in Zimbabwe the son of white farmers provides a more nuanced, and occasionally humorous view. After school. Roge...

from JohnHastie

Between the covers of this crazy little family memoir lurks the legacy of empires, revolutions, and cultural forgetfulness. I loved it. Douglas Rogers left his family's land in Zimbabwe to become a globetrotting reporter, but from time to time he checks in on his folks. With martinis on the pati...

from Sullywriter

Witty, frequently heartbreaking, and occasionally hilarious, Douglas Rogers tells the remarkable, often surreal story of his parents' daily struggles to hold on to their land in the nightmarish landscape of Zimbabwe when the Mugabe government was seizing farms from white owners. A wonderfully wri...

from sarazet

Memoir of a son's visits to his parents' resort in Zimbabwe in the 90's and early 2000's, reflecting the downward spiral of the country at that time. What was once a thriving hostel becomes a brothel and later a speakeasy for diamond buyers. It would have been a more enjoyable for me if the autho...

from kaitanya64

Quite a few white Zimbabweans have published memoirs and commentaries in the last few years. Many, like Rogers, are no longer living their, but experience it through their parents and their childhood friends. What makes Rogers' book stand out, in my opinion, is his journalist's understanding of t...