When a Crocodile Eats The Sun - Peter Godwin ( Rhodesia / Zimbabwe interest )

Paperback Picador Africa 2006. 342 pages.

In good condition with no inscriptions.

"When a crocodile eats the sun is a story of the disintegration of a family, set against the collapse of a country. Peter Godwin is living in Manhattan wen he returns to Zimbabwe, his birthplace, having received the news that his father is dying. He finds the former breadbasket of a continent entering a vortex of violent 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 Godwin discovers a 50 year old family secret, one which changes everything he thought he knew about his place in the world.When a crocodile eats the sun' is how the Shona people of Zimbabwe describe a solar eclipse; the celestial crocodile, they say, briefly consumes the life-giving star as a warning that he is much displeased with man below - the very worst of omens. peter Godwin's powerful moving memoir describes dark times and dark aspects of human behaviour spanning two continents and half a century; it is a searing portrayal of a sons effort to rescue his family, and a familys struggle to belong in a hostile land."

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