When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa, (Paperback)

from rafe

Chilling. Chilling not because of what Mugabe wrought but because of how so many collaborated with him with easy brutality; because rationality has been suspended; because some in my country, like my president, so clearly identify with the madness. The memoir tells the story of the author's paren...

from tangledthread

A memoir of a white Zimbabwean expatriate attempting to care for his aging parents who are still living in Zimbabwe under the Mugabe regime. Peter Godwin does an excellent job of combining a personal story with a political story giving us chilling insights into the fragility of freedom, democracy...

from JonQuirk

A very powerful book that unfolds in a simple, highly personal way, the terrors of modern-day Zimbabwe and the horrors of the Mugabe regime. A tale of a couple socially-aware caring parents intent to the end on supporting and caring for the society in which they developed and raised a family at a...

from sarazet

Compelling account of a father gradually dying while he holds on to his life as a white in Zimbabwe. Conditions in the country deteriorate, and whites are less and less welcome, but still he holds on to memories of a full life there.

from debnance

Zimbabwe during the past thirty years seems to have been a miserable place to live. Inflation caused prices of even the most basic items and services to soar. The government instituted a program where white-owned farms were taken over by black farmers, leaving the white farmers without a home and...