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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
Peter Godwin
A Memoir of Africa
Back Bay Books
April 2008
On Sale: April 10, 2008
398 pages
ISBN: 0316018716
EAN: 9780316018715
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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
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