Growing up in Rhodesia in the 1960s, Peter Godwin inhabited a magical and frightening world of leopard-hunting, lepers, witch doctors, snakes and forest fires. As an adolescent, a conscript caught in the middle of a vicious civil war, and then as an adult who returned to Zimbabwe as a journalist to cover the bloody transition to majority rule, he discovered a land stalked by death and danger.

The award-winning memoir of a white boy growing up in Rhodesia as it went through a bloody transition to majority rule

About the Author
Peter Godwin is an award-winning author and journalist. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, after military service he studied law at Cambridge University and International Relations and African History at Oxford. He was a foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times and a founding presenter and writer of Assignment/Correspondent, BBC television's premier foreign affairs programme. Mukiwa was an international bestseller and winner of the George Orwell Prize for political writing and the Esquire-Apple-Waterstone's Non-Fiction Award. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, about his return to Zimbabwe as it began to collapse into chaos, is also published by Picador. He lives in New York.

Awards
Winner of The Orwell Prize 1997 (UK).



Book Information
ISBN 9780330450102
Author Peter Godwin
Format Paperback
Page Count 432
Imprint Picador
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 296g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 130mm * 30mm