The Fear, Peter Godwin
The Fear, Peter Godwin
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The Fear
Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe

Author: Peter Godwin

Narrator: Peter Godwin

Unabridged: 12 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/16/2011

Synopsis

Born in what's now called Zimbabwe, journalist Peter Godwin returns to his homeland in 2008 after three decades of Robert Mugabe's brutal economic and human destruction. Hoping to "dance on Mugabe's political grave" in the wake of the tyrant's defeat at the polls, Godwin instead risks his life to secretly chronicle Mugabe's ruthless backlash of torture and terror locals call "The Fear." ". heart-wrenching and extremely moving."-Kirkus Reviews

About Peter Godwin

Peter Godwin was born and raised in Zimbabwe. He is the author of six nonfiction books including Mukiwa, which received the George Orwell Prize and the Esquire-Apple-Waterstones award, and When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, which won the Borders Original Voices Award. His book, The Fear, was selected by The New Yorker as a best book of the year. He has taught writing at Wesleyan and Columbia and served as President of the PEN American Center. He is an Orwell fellow and a Guggenheim fellow. He lives in New York City. Follow him on X @PeterGodwin.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Caroline on May 20, 2015

. This review contains spoilers . In the middle of the book, Peter Godwin - describes why he has written it: “I am bearing witness to what is happening here – to the sustained cruelty of it all. I have a responsibility to try to amplify this suffering, this sacrifice, so that it will not have happened......more

Goodreads review by Peter on January 23, 2011

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Goodreads review by Skip on March 25, 2017

Peter Godwin, a white Zimbabwean, is a very talented writer. This book recalls his visits home in the aftermath of Robert Mugabe's stunning defeat by the MDC candidate in 2008. Refusing to cede power, Mugabe and his loyal followers launched a campaign to kill and torture their opponents. Since becom......more

Goodreads review by Rohit on July 01, 2017

Till I bought this book, my knowledge of Zimbabwe was limited to the fact that it had a national cricket team, one among the twelve cricket playing nations in the world. A legacy left by the British as it did to other colonial nations. The moment I started reading the book, it was so depressing that......more

Goodreads review by Andrea on May 08, 2020

Peter Godwin is a white Zimbabwean who clearly loves his native country. He returns after the 2008 presidential elections because he expects to join with his fellow citizens in "dancing on Robert Mugabe's political grave." But what he finds himself doing over the next three months is bearing witness......more

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