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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun.(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

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Godwin, the author of a previous memoir about growing up during Zimbabwe's war of independence, has written a sequel of sorts, tracing the collapse of his country in the course of the past decade (the violently destructive Robert Mugabe is the "crocodile" of the title) in tandem with the decline of his father. The memoir's central drama comes from the dying father's revelation that he is not British at all, as his son ...

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