"Quando a crocodile eats the sun "is the story of a writer of Polish and English origin, born in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, which is found to deal with a situation very strong.
the late 90s, after having gone a matter of urgency in her home country following a serious illness of his father, the writer comes up against a political unknown to him before. Zimbabwe is experiencing a political and economic crisis on the basis of race, fomented and instigated by a dictator still in power, which leads the people to a serious famine.
Godwin Robert Mugabe claims that the crocodile ate the sun, and with it the life di un intero Paese che poco fa era una delle più ricche ex-colonie britanniche.
Godwin P., Quando un coccodrillo mangia il sole, Baldini Castaldi Dalai, Milano 2008
“ When a Crocodile Eats the Sun ” is the history of an English and Polish Jewish ancestry writer, born in Southern Rodhesia, known today as Zimbabwe, that lives a hard time after returning to his home town.
At the end of the ‘90s Godwin goes through a political fact he ignored before, the serious economical crisis on racial basis Zimbabwe lives in that period, fueled and istigated by a self-proclaim for life dictator, nowadays still in power.
The writer infers the crocodile Robert Mugabe ate the sun and, at the same time, also the life of an whole country that some years ago was one of the richest of the previous British colonies.
Godwin P., When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, Picador, London 2007
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