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Hailed by reviewers as "powerful," "haunting" and "a tour de force of personal journalism," When A Crocodile Eats the Sun is the unforgettable story of one man's struggle to discover his past and come to terms with his present. Award winning author and journalist Peter Godwin writes with pathos and intimacy about Zimbabwe's spiral into chaos and, along with it, his family's steady collapse. This dramatic memoir is a searing portrait of unspeakable tragedy and exile, but it is also vivid proof of the profound strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love.
"In the tradition of Rian Malan and Philip Gourevitch, a deeply moving book about the unknowability of an Africa at once thrilling and grotesque. In elegant, elegiac prose, Godwin describes his father's illness and death in Zimbabwe against the backdrop of Mugabe's descent into tyranny. His parent's waning and the country's deterioration are entwined so that personal and political tragedy become inseparable, each more profound for the presence of the other" -- Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon
"A fascinating, heartbreaking, deeply illuminating memoir that has the shape and feel of a superb novel." -Kurt Anderson, author of Heydey
"In the tradition of Rian Malan and Philip Gourevitch, a deeply moving book about the unknowability of an Africa at once thrilling and grotesque. In elegant, elegiac prose, Godwin describes his father's illness and death in Zimbabwe against the backdrop of Mugabe's descent into tyranny. His parent's waning and the country's deterioration are entwined so that personal and political tragedy become inseparable, each more profound for the presence of the other" -- Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon
"A fascinating, heartbreaking, deeply illuminating memoir that has the shape and feel of a superb novel." -Kurt Anderson, author of Heydey
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'A powerful, emotional and provoking travel book that should be read by everyone heading to Southern Africa' -- Guardian Unlimited Books of the Year
'A powerful, emotional and provoking travel book that should be read by everyone.' -- Guardian Unlimited Books of the Year
'An astonishingly powerful, moving and well-written book...a story that has to be read.'
-- The Tablet
'Heartbreaking...a family secret, history, autobiography and travelogue' -- The Times
'Heartfelt,absorbing and profoundly moving'
-- Sunday Times, Culture
'It's a well-told book, mingling as it does the personal with the wider political scene'
-- Seven Sunday Telegraph
'Peter Godwin's affectionate portrait of his parents...and detailed account of the farm invasions' -- Daily Telegraph
'This is both a moving family memoir and a sobering account...of the planet's nastiest dictatorships'
-- Mail on Sunday
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'A powerful, emotional and provoking travel book that should be read by everyone.' -- Guardian Unlimited Books of the Year
'An astonishingly powerful, moving and well-written book...a story that has to be read.'
-- The Tablet
'Heartbreaking...a family secret, history, autobiography and travelogue' -- The Times
'Heartfelt,absorbing and profoundly moving'
-- Sunday Times, Culture
'It's a well-told book, mingling as it does the personal with the wider political scene'
-- Seven Sunday Telegraph
'Peter Godwin's affectionate portrait of his parents...and detailed account of the farm invasions' -- Daily Telegraph
'This is both a moving family memoir and a sobering account...of the planet's nastiest dictatorships'
-- Mail on Sunday
The story of the disintegration of a family, set against the collapse of a country, a sequel of sorts to Peter Godwin's award-winning and bestselling memoir, Mukiwa.
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: New. After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downwards into the jaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator. And yet long after their comfortable lifestyle had been shattered and millions were fleeing, his parents refuse to leave, steadfast in their allegiance to the failed state that has been their adopted home for 50 years.Then Godwin discovered a shocking family secret that helped explain their loyalty. Africa was his father's sanctuary from another identity, another world.When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is a stirring memoir of the disintegration of a family set against the collapse of a country. But it is also a vivid portrait of the profound strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love. Seller Inventory # DADAX0316018716
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