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reotype. Political involvements and a fascination with history enter into the narrative.
— Compiled by Suzanne Chessler and Gail Zimmerman
WHEN A CROCODILE
EATS THE SUN
By Peter Godwin
(Little, Brown; 345 pp.; $24.99)
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imbabwe, formerly
Southern Rhodesia, is the
setting for this unforget-
table memoir. That once prosperous
country is now reduced to a shambles
by the cruel dictatorship of Robert
Mugabe. The title of the book is
based on the belief among
some Africans in Zimbabwe
that a solar eclipse takes
place when the crocodile
eats the sun — indicating
the crocodile is unhappy
about the behavior of
human beings.
Author Peter Godwin was
born and raised in Southern
Rhodesia. He described his
early life there in Mukiwa:
A White Boy in Africa. Godwin stud-
ied law and international politics at
Cambridge and Oxford before becom-
ing a foreign correspondent for the
Sunday Times of London and for
the BBC-TV. His reports on the mas-
sacre by the Mugabe government in
Matabeleland resulted in his being
temporarily banned from Zimbabwe.
He eventually settled in New
York, where his future wife, Joanna,
a reporter for the Guardian, had
accepted an assignment. Before they
were married, they attended the wed-
ding in Zimbabwe of Godwin's sister,
Georgina. Her strident opposition to
the Mugabe government eventually
led to her being banned. She moved
to London, where she continued to
broadcast news about the repression
in Zimbabwe.
With Georgina in London and her
brother in New York, their parents
were on their own in Zimbabwe. Now
in their 70s and suffering from sev-
eral debilitating illnesses, they strug-
gled to survive under increasingly
difficult conditions. They refused to
leave, having lived in Africa for 50
years.
Godwin managed to visit his par-
ents by securing journalistic assign-
ments. On one visit, his mother
reveals a secret.
As far as Godwin knew, his father
was born in England, served in the
British army during World War II and
then studied engineering at London
University before being sent by his
employer to Africa.
It turns out that George Godwin is
actually Kazimierz Jerzy
Goldfarb, a Polish Jew
who, in the summer of
1939, was sent by his par-
ents to study in England.
He remained there after
World War II began and
joined the army of the
Polish government in
exile. He saw a good deal
of fighting in Europe and,
after the war, married an
ex-Wren who came from
"four generations of Anglican church-
men."
She went on to become a doc-
tor; Goldfarb changed his name to
Godwin, and they moved to Africa
where she practiced medicine and he
ran copper mines and timber estates.
Godwin seeks to find out more
about his father and his family. In
the process, he learns about the
Holocaust, the death camps and
the killing of his father's family by
the Nazis. As Godwin reflects on his
discovery, he likens the condition of
whites in Zimbabwe to the plight of
Jews everywhere.
This powerful memoir, which starts
out to be an exposure of the terrible
things happening in Zimbabwe, also
brings to light a family secret that
enables the author to reflect on the
horrors of the Holocaust. These two
themes come together in a well-writ-
ten book that compels readers to
keep turning the pages.
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