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After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downwards into thejaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and overwhelming.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Peter Godwin
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Co., Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316158947
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