When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa

Title: When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa Author: Peter Godwin ISBN: 9780316158947 Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Published: 2007 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: Used: Very Good F 1639488 Publisher Description: 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 thejaws 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.Then Godwin discovered a shocking family secret that helped explain their l