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Traces how the author routinely traveled between his Manhattan home to Zimbabwe to check on his aging parents, visits during which he witnessed the African region's dramatic descent into a social and political turmoil that eventually revealed to the author his parents' secret about their loyalty to the area.
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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'
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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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- PublisherLittle, Brown and Company
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0316158941
- ISBN 13 9780316158947
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages344
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