Author: Godwin, Peter.
Title: When a Crocodile Eats the Sun. A Memoir.
Description: Picador 2006 1st edition. Large format paperback 341pp illustrated b/w photos. 8vo 0.5kg. Ownership inscription ffep. A clean G++ copy. ISBN: 9781770100046 Author, now living in Manhattan, returns to his birthplace of Zimbabwe to visit his ailing father. With Zimbabwe imploding and his parents reluctant to leave their farm, he discovers the family hidden secret, that they were Polish Jews and not from England as he had always believed. The title refers to the Shona way of describing a solar eclipse, the very worst of omens.

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