When A Crocodile eats The Sun- Peter Godwin (Rhodesia / Zimbabwe interest)

Paperback published by Picador Africa 2006. In very good condition. 342 pages. By the author of Mukiwa.

" This is a strong, heroic book about the implosion of an African nation, about the inspiring love of a family for its living and its dead, about a quiet courage in the face of sustained and almost unimaginable brutality. I say 'unimaginable', and yet Peter Godwin has imagined it all for us in cool, lucid detail, which makes this modern tragedy too vivid to bear and too central to our concerns to ignore".......- Edmund White, author of A boy's Own Story and The Beautiful room is Empty."

When A Crocodile Eats The Sun is the story of the dintegration of a family, set against the cllapse of a country. Peter Godwin is living in Manhattan when he returns to Zimbabwe, his birthplace, having recieved the news that his father is dying. He finds the former breadbasket of  a continent entering a vortex of iolent chaos and famine, prey to goon squads, presided over by a paranoid kleptocracy. But his parents, who emigrated from England after the second world war, refuse to leave their home.It is against this backdrop that Godwi discovers a fifty year old family secret, one which changes everything he though he knew about his place in the world."