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When A Crocodile Eats the Sun

Af: Peter Godwin Engelsk Paperback

When A Crocodile Eats the Sun

Af: Peter Godwin Engelsk Paperback
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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.

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.

‘Heartbreaking . . . Godwin plainly loves Africa, and he captures the baffling wayward contradictions of its people, their cruelties and unexpected kindnesses, their nobility of spirit in the face of appalling conditions, with humour and grace’ Daily Mail

‘A wonderful book . . . beautifully written, packed with insight and free of rancour’ Literary Review

‘A strong, heroic book . . . too vivid to bear and too central to our concerns to ignore’ Edmund White

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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.

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.

‘Heartbreaking . . . Godwin plainly loves Africa, and he captures the baffling wayward contradictions of its people, their cruelties and unexpected kindnesses, their nobility of spirit in the face of appalling conditions, with humour and grace’ Daily Mail

‘A wonderful book . . . beautifully written, packed with insight and free of rancour’ Literary Review

‘A strong, heroic book . . . too vivid to bear and too central to our concerns to ignore’ Edmund White

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 352
ISBN-13: 9780330448185
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0330448188
Kategori: Forside
Udg. Dato: 2 nov 2007
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 131mm
Højde: 196mm
Forlag: Pan Macmillan
Oplagsdato: 2 nov 2007
Forfatter(e): Peter Godwin
Forfatter(e) Peter Godwin


Kategori Forside


ISBN-13 9780330448185


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 352


Udgave


Længde 18mm


Bredde 131mm


Højde 196mm


Udg. Dato 2 nov 2007


Oplagsdato 2 nov 2007


Forlag Pan Macmillan

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