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Description

Mukiwa opens with Peter Godwin, six years old, describing the murder of his neighbor by African guerillas in 1964, pre-war Rhodesia. Godwin's parents are liberal whites, his mother a government-employed doctor, his father an engineer. Through his innocent, young eyes, the story of the... read more

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First Sentence

"I think I first realized something was wrong when our next neighbour, oom Piet Oberholzer, was murdered."

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  1. Peter Godwin (Author)
 

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