Title: When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
Author: Peter Godwin
Publisher: Picador
Year: 2005/2007
416 pages
Audiobook.
Godwin's memoir of growing up in Zimbabwe is a good companion piece to Fuller's Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood; like Fuller's autobiography, Godwin's works best in the childhood segments. Godwin captures changing attitudes and moods over time and shows the sociopolitical changes in his country across his lifetime. The writing is descriptive but not flowery, and the dialogue flows naturally.
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