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Peter Godwin, an award-winning writer, is on assignment in Zululand when he is summoned by his mother to Zimbabwe, his birthplace. His father is seriously ill; she fears he is dying. Godwin finds his country, once a post-colonial success story, descending into a vortex of violence and racial hatred. 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. 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.… (mehr)
Godwin manages to write a stirring personal story against the backdrop of Zimababwe's fall into chaos without losing the balance between the two. Fascinating, tragic, surprising. I know Zimbabwean expats who have spoken bitterly about the loss of their farms, but I never knew how different the situation there was from South Africa. This could have been such a different book -- full of anger and bitterness. Instead it is a celebration of a homeland; one that may never exist again. ( )
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is a African expression for a solar eclipse, which happens when man angers the gods. This memoir describes the wanton destruction of Zimbabwe under the leadership of Robert Mugabe -- specifically the loss of hope and "politics of envy." Get this fact: in 1963, Zimbabwe/Rhodesia had the same GNP as Korea. In the early 2000s, Korea's GNP was 120 times larger than Zimbabwe's GNP. ( )
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In memoriam: George Godwin
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My father is now more than an hour late. We sit on a mossy stone bench under a giant fig tree, waiting for him. We have finished the little Chinese thermos of coffee that my mother prepared, and the sandwiches.
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Peter Godwin, an award-winning writer, is on assignment in Zululand when he is summoned by his mother to Zimbabwe, his birthplace. His father is seriously ill; she fears he is dying. Godwin finds his country, once a post-colonial success story, descending into a vortex of violence and racial hatred. 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. 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.
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