Exit Wounds
A Story of Love, Loss and Occasional Wars
$26.85
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
2 December 2025
Summary
‘Masterful’ DAVE EGGERS ‘Unforgettable’ MAGGIE SMITH ‘Profound’ CLAIRE MESSUD ‘Will leave you breathless’ AMINATTA FORMA
When she turned ninety, my mother sprang a final surprise on us. She started speaking in the voice of a stranger.
Peter’s mother is dying. Born in England, and having spent most of her adult life as a doctor in Zimbabwe, she now lies on a hospital bed in the partitioned living room of his sister’s London house, her accent having overnight become posher than …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781837260829 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1837260826 |
| Author: | Peter Godwin |
| Publisher: | Canongate Books |
| Imprint: | Canongate Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 2 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 202g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
‘Praise for Mukiwa: The life of the white boys and girls in colonial Africa has vanished now, but this fine and powerful memoir is a marvellous contribution to its literature’ - WILLIAM BOYD, Sunday Times
‘Remarkable’ - DORIS LESSING, Observer
‘Praise for The Fear: The Fear is an important book … Godwin is passionate and personal, as well as bold in his travel and scrupulous in his documentation’ - PAUL THEROUX
‘The Fear is an urgent and essential book … it makes for relentlessly gripping reading’ - PHILIP GOUREVITCH
Peter Godwin
Peter Godwin was born and raised in Zimbabwe. He is the author of six non-fiction 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.
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