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Bezig met laden... When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa (origineel 2006; editie 2007)door Peter Godwin (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkWanneer een krokodil de zon opslokt door Peter Godwin (2006)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Extremely well written book on the contradictions of Europeans living in Zimbabwe that also features the history of his family. ( ) Godwin manages to write a stirring personal story against the backdrop of Zimababwe's fall into chaos without losing the balance between the two. Fascinating, tragic, surprising. I know Zimbabwean expats who have spoken bitterly about the loss of their farms, but I never knew how different the situation there was from South Africa. This could have been such a different book -- full of anger and bitterness. Instead it is a celebration of a homeland; one that may never exist again. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is a African expression for a solar eclipse, which happens when man angers the gods. This memoir describes the wanton destruction of Zimbabwe under the leadership of Robert Mugabe -- specifically the loss of hope and "politics of envy." Get this fact: in 1963, Zimbabwe/Rhodesia had the same GNP as Korea. In the early 2000s, Korea's GNP was 120 times larger than Zimbabwe's GNP. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Peter Godwin, an award-winning writer, is on assignment in Zululand when he is summoned by his mother to Zimbabwe, his birthplace. His father is seriously ill; she fears he is dying. Godwin finds his country, once a post-colonial success story, descending into a vortex of violence and racial hatred. His father recovers, but over the next few years Godwin travels regularly between his family life in Manhattan and the increasing chaos of Zimbabwe, with its rampant inflation and land seizures making famine a very real prospect. It is against this backdrop that Godwin discovers a fifty-year-old family secret, one which changes everything he thought he knew about his father, and his own place in the world. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)968.9105History and Geography Africa South Africa and southern Africa Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi Zimbabwe, MostlyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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