Peter Godwin's book combines vivid reportage, moving personal stories and revealing memoir, and traces his family's quest to belong in hostile lands - a quest that spans three continents and half a century. The crocodile ate the sun that rendered Zimbabwe beautiful and plentiful. A beautifully intertwined story of the decline of a man and the parallel decline of a nation, Zimbabwe, which pivots into an entirely new story: the author’s dying Christian British father was actually a Polish Jew, born Kazimierz Goldfarb, whose family was killed in Treblinka concentration camp. 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. In When a Crocodile Eats the Sun (2006), Peter Godwin tells of a conversation. When A Crocodile Eats The Sun Paperback About the Author, Peter Godwin is the author of Mukiwa, also published by Picador, an account of his childhood and. The story of the fall of Rhodesia to socialism/communism. 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. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is the memoir of Godwins family and their lives in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. 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. Peter Godwin, an award-winning writer, is on assignment in Zululand when he is summoned by his mother to Zimbabwe, his birthplace.
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