{"product_id":"exit-wounds-by-peter-godwin-9781837260829","title":"Exit Wounds","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Masterful' – DAVE EGGERS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Unforgettable' – MAGGIE SMITH\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Profound' – CLAIRE MESSUD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Will leave you breathless' – AMINATTA FORMA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen she turned ninety, my mother sprang a final surprise on us. She started speaking in the voice of a stranger.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePeter'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 the Queen's.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePeter has spent his life missing his Zimbabwean childhood, a longing that does not diminish as he reflects on being a conscript in the Rhodesian army in the 1970s, writing about conflicts across the African continent and beyond, or settling in New York with his English wife and transatlantic children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn his mother's final months, he must come to terms with everything his family was—and wasn't: the secrets they kept from one another, the stoicism that sometimes threatened to destroy them, and the beauty of the wildly different places they called home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eExit Wounds\u003c\/em\u003e, Peter Godwin considers the life of émigrés, exiles, and refugees, and grieves the many losses that make life both magnificent and unbearable. With generations of history behind him, he brings us into the spaces which make us question, suffer, and celebrate the lives we have among family and friends, and the healing of our own scars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Gardners Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072505135340,"sku":"9781837260829","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/fd4e7a9321be577bb7ccd71e5c1f6890.jpg?v=1765138451","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/exit-wounds-by-peter-godwin-9781837260829","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}