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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1033 in Books
- Published on: 2007-11-02
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
Editorial Reviews
Guardian Unlimited Books of the Year
'A powerful, emotional and provoking travel book that should be read by everyone.'
The Times
'Heartbreaking...a family secret, history, autobiography and travelogue'
Seven Sunday Telegraph
'It's a well-told book, mingling as it does the personal with the wider political scene'
Customer Reviews
Well worth reading
I received this book last week and haven't put it down until I finished it yesterday morning. The last few chapters had me in a flood of tears...not only because of the death in the author's family but because of the sadness of the whole Zimbabwe situation and the effect it has had on millions of people's lives. Well worth reading.
Better Understand Africa with this Sensitive Masterpiece
This is the second of Peter Godwin's two books on his family's experience of Rhodesia-into-Zimbabwe. You would do well to read them in the reverse order; the Crocodile followed by Mukiwa. Mukiwa on its own or read first is but an interesting account of Godwin's earlier life in the white-haven of Rhodesia and of his growing awareness that change was inevitable and deserved. There are many such accounts. However if read as an epilogue, Mukiwa, confirms the right of Godwin to be the author of Crocodile and explains his perceptive insight. Crocodile is a must, a disturbing must-read. Identity, you will learn, applies not just to the person but to a nation, in this case to the African nation. I have bought and given away three copies and have now to buy a third because none is being returned.
A Special Personal Story about Zimbabwe
What a wonderful, unable-to-put-down book about the author's personal family life in Zimbabwe. I read his previous book "Mukiwa", White Boy in Africa, and loved that too. His story this time is gripping . . . about his family life, a surprise discovery, the craziness of life in Mugabe's Zimbabwe. It is thought-provoking and a quite incredible adventure story too.
