When A Crocodile Eats the Sun, Paperback/Peter Godwin

The follow up to his classic memoir Mukiwa, this is the story of the disintegration of a family, set against the collapse of a country. Summoned to Zimbabwe by his mother as his father falls seriously ill, the award winning writer Godwin finds his country descending into a vortex of violence and racial hatred. 'A wonderful book... beautifully written,' Literary Review