![]() ![]() He has written a powerful and deeply affecting book about a family trying to ride the tsunami of change." Michiko Kakutani, New York Times "His book is heartfelt, absorbing and profoundly moving." Ian Critchley, The Sunday Times "Tender, frustrated, unsentimental – this potent memoir holds little joy for Zimbabwe but is fiercely proud of its subjects' unyielding integrity." James Urquhart, The Independent. ![]() ![]() His family's connections to the situation in Zimbabwe are thoroughly explored, in particular with the revelation that his father was a Polish Jew fleeing the Warsaw ghetto. The book concentrates on conflicts between the MDC and Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF and on family dynamics. He visits besieged white farmers and the families of those murdered. Godwin, a White Zimbabwean follows the escalating political change in his home country as bloody land invasions and corruption engulf the country. It is a continuation of Godwin's earlier memoirs, Mukiwa. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is a 2006 book of memoirs by Peter Godwin. ![]()
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