![]() ![]() ![]() His father is seriously ill she fears he is dying. Peter Godwin, an award-winning writer, is on assignment in Zululand when he is summoned by his mother to Zimbabwe, his birthplace. Peter Godwin's book combines vivid reportage, moving personal stories and revealing memoir, and traces his family's quest to belong in hostile lands – a quest that spans three continents and half a century. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun ebook By Peter Godwin Read a Sample Format ebook ISBN 9780330448185 Author Peter Godwin Publisher Pan Macmillan UK Release 01 January 2008 Subjects Biography & Autobiography Nonfiction Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive. : When A Crocodile Eats the Sun (Paperback): Paperback. It is against this backdrop that Godwin discovers a fifty-year-old family secret, one which changes everything he thought he knew about his father, and his own place in the world. His father recovers, but over the next few years Godwin travels regularly between his family life in Manhattan and the increasing chaos of Zimbabwe, with its rampant inflation and land seizures making famine a very real prospect. Godwin finds his country, once a post-colonial success story, descending into a vortex of violence and racial hatred. ![]()
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