The new york times from william boyd, awardwinning author of brazzaville beach and restless, comes a stunning literary mystery about crime and punishment. On brazzaville beach, on the edge of africa, hope clearwater examines the complex circumstances that brought her there. A good man in africa, a study of a disasterprone british diplomat operating in west africa, for which he won the whitbread book award and somerset maugham award in 1981. In 1974 hope clearwater goes to the congo to work on a project observing chimpanzees.
He was educated at gordonstoun school, glasgow university and jesus college, oxford. In the heart of a civil wartorn african nation, primate researc. The book tells the story of a woman, hope clearwater, researching chimpanzees, and the circumstances that brought her to africa. Love is blind by william boyd penguin random house canada. Dec 29, 2009 brazzaville beach by william boyd, 9780061956317, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Hope clearwater, the protagonist of william boyds novel, brazzaville beach is a young english ethologist whos come to the grosso arvore research center in central africa to make a study of chimpanzees and to forget her broken marriage to a brilliant mathematician back home. Sifting the details for evidence of her own innocence or guilt, she tells her engrossing story with a blunt and beguiling honesty that not only intrigues and disturbs but.
In the heart of a civil war torn african nation, primate researcher hope clearwater made a shocking discovery about apes and manyoung, alone, and far from her family in britain, hope clearwater contemplates the extraordinary events that left her washed up like driftwood on brazzaville beach it is here, on the distant, lonely outskirts of africa, where she. William boyd was born in accra, ghana, on 7 march 1952. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Hope clearwater is a member of the grosso arvore research project in africa, an ongoing study into the behavior of primates. Mores the pity, since brazzaville beach is clearly a novel in. In a book packed with scientific and mathematical metaphors, boyd explores how. He grew up there, and then went to university in nice, glasgow and oxford. He has won many awards including the whitbread first novel, the john llewellyn rhys prize, the james tait black memorial prize and the sunday express book of the year award. In 1983 boyd was named by granta as one of the 20 best of young. Combining all the glamour and excitement of ian flemings original novels with the masterful storytelling of william boyd, solo is a stylish, period novel featuring 007 as a veteran agent at 45. Brazzaville beach by william boyd, 9780061956317, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. In true bond style the plot remains under wraps until publication on 26 september 20.
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