When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa - Paperback

Award-winning author and journalist Peter Godwin writes with pathos and intimacy about Zimbabwe's spiral into chaos--and, along with it, his family's steady collapse--in this unforgettable story of one man's struggle to discover his past and come to terms with his present.
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After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downwards into the jaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator. And yet long after their comfortable lifestyle had been shattered and millions were fleeing, his parents refuse to leave, steadfast in their allegiance to the failed state that has been their adopted home for 50 years.