![]() ![]() An eyewitness account of that cataclysmic time, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is also a tribute to Godwin's aging parents and a searing exploration of the author's own soul. "Peter Godwin, an acclaimed Zimbabwean journalist now living in Manhattan, masterfully weaves the political and the highly personal. He has written a powerful and deeply affecting book about a family trying to ride the tsunami of change." Michiko Kakutani, New York Times ![]() "His book is heartfelt, absorbing and profoundly moving." Ian Critchley, The Sunday Times "Tender, frustrated, unsentimental – this potent memoir holds little joy for Zimbabwe but is fiercely proud of its subjects' unyielding integrity." James Urquhart, The Independent. Godwin finds his country, once a post-colonial success story, descending into a vortex of violence and racial hatred. His father is seriously ill she fears he is dying. His family's connections to the situation in Zimbabwe are thoroughly explored, in particular with the revelation that his father was a Polish Jew fleeing the Warsaw ghetto. Peter Godwin, an award-winning writer, is on assignment in Zululand when he is summoned by his mother to Zimbabwe, his birthplace. The book concentrates on conflicts between the MDC and Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF and on family dynamics. He visits besieged white farmers and the families of those murdered. Godwin, a White Zimbabwean follows the escalating political change in his home country as bloody land invasions and corruption engulf the country. It is a continuation of Godwin's earlier memoirs, Mukiwa. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is a 2006 book of memoirs by Peter Godwin. ![]()
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