Mourning a mother, a marriage and a country
‘Exit Wounds’, Peter Godwin’s new memoir, is a touching unburdening of multifaceted grief
With Peter Godwin having already written three memoirs, we can be forgiven for wondering how much more he can tell of his life and for scepticism as to whether his new work, Exit Wounds, will enthral as much as his previous books did.
Mukiwa (“white boy”) was about his childhood and formative years and the period in which Zimbabwe transitioned from colonialism and When A Crocodile Eats the Sun was a quest for belonging in a vortex of familial confusion and national chaos. The Fear wove in an account of the Gukurahundi, the 1983-87 genocidal campaign perpetrated by Robert Mugabe’s Fifth Brigade in Matabeleland, the horrifying news of which Godwin had initially broken for Sunday Times (UK)...
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