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Title: When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
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| When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Little, Brown and Company African Reality |
| Having visited Botswana on several occasions, specifically the Okavanga "high end" safari camps, I was conscious of the the lack of exposure to the real Africa, the everyday Botswanan life experience. But for diamonds, the foresight of a powerful tribal chief and, among other things, a government committed to local natives investing in eco-tourism, Botswana could have been Zimbabwe. Godwin's "Mukiwa" increased my awareness of colonial Rhodesia and it's collapse into local rule and the emergence of Zimbabwe. "When Crocodiles Eat the Sun" relates Godwin's family's experience as Zimbabwe's social fabric is destroyed under the rule of Robert Mugabe. At the book's end I cried. Not for a romantic return to Rhodesian colonial life and not for what is happening today during the lead up to a re-election, but for what will happen in Zimbabwe's (and Africa's) future. |
| When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Little, Brown and Company Both Beautiful and Sad |
| A book so well-written that you are compelled to keep reading even as the story breaks your heart. Superbly descriptive. A first hand account of the utter moral bankruptcy of modern day Zimbabwe. A must read for the African leaders who seem clueless about their neighboring country. |
| When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Little, Brown and Company The Ugliness of Fascism |
| As the second generation child of a prominent white Zimbabwean family and a highly respected international journalist, Peter Godwin does a marvelous job of intertwining the inevitable, tragic disintegration of a formerly prosperous country with the all too real consequences for a white family caught in the throes of horrendous social, political, and economic change. To read this book is to finally understand what it's like to have one's culture pulled from beneath one's very being...and what it's like to adjust to a terrible world where race means the difference between life and death. |
| When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Little, Brown and Company In your Heart and Mind |
| This beautifully written story will remain in your heart and mind. It will be one of the more memorable books I have read. |
| When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Little, Brown and Company The Tragedy of Zimbabwe |
| Author Peter Goodwin grew up in Zimbabwe when it was Rhodesia. He returns to help his aging parents and finds a country that is collapsing under the brutal dictator, Robert Mugabe. Eloquently he describes the downward spiral of a once beautiful, thriving country. |
| When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Little, Brown and Company Product Description |
After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downwards into the
jaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator. And yet long after their comfortable lifestyle had been shattered and millions were fleeing, his parents refuse to leave, steadfast in their allegiance to the failed state that has been their adopted home for 50 years.
Then Godwin discovered a shocking family secret that helped explain their loyalty. Africa was his father's sanctuary from another identity, another world.
WHEN A CROCODILE EATS THE SUN is a stirring memoir of the disintegration of a family set against the collapse of a country. But it is also a vivid portrait of the profound strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love. |
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