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When A Crocodile Eats The Sun

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is a saying by some remote tribespeople of Zimbabwe used to explain the actions of a solar eclipse – the celestial crocodile briefly consumes the life-giving star to show his displeasure with man below – it’™s the very worst of omens.Peter Godwin lives in Manhattan. Ten years after he has left Zimbabwe, his homeland, he is called back as his father is dying. He rediscovers his birthplace, once the breadbasket of the entire African continent but now a place of violent chaos and famine. His parents, who emigrated from England to the country after the Second World War, now refuse to leave. And it is against this backdrop that Godwin learns of the fifty-year-old family secret – that his father is not the Anglo-African colonial in a safari suit and desert boots, but a Polish Jew whose family was torn apart in the Holocaust.A powerful and moving memoir of a son’™s effort to rescue his family and his family’™s struggle to remain and belong in a hostile land.

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