When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin

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

Peter Godwin is the author of When a Crocodile Bites the Sun and Mukiwa, both of which have won awards. He was born and reared in Zimbabwe and went on to study at Cambridge and Oxford before working as a foreign reporter in more than 60 countries. He's written for National Geographic, the New York Times Magazine, and Vanity Fair since relocating to Manhattan. He has taught at Princeton and Columbia, and in 2010 he was awarded a Guggenheim grant.

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ISBN 13	9780316018715
ISBN 10	0316018716
Title	When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
Author	Peter Godwin
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown & Company
Year published	2008-04-01
Number of pages	368
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