by William Boyd · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140817669
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«A Good Man in Africa» is William Boyd's comic novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (400 pages, in English).
Morgan Leafy, British representative in the fictional African nation of Kinjanja, is no success: his career advances amid bribes to local politicians and minor disasters. With biting irony, Boyd portrays the ineptitude of the British foreign service in the colonial era, a darkly humorous satire on the decline of the empire.
Winner of the Whitbread Prize for a first novel (1981) and the Somerset Maugham Award (1982). 1999 Penguin Student Editions edition, prepared by John McRea.
Aimed at students of English literature and readers of satire and historical fiction about colonialism.
William Andrew Murray Boyd is a British novelist, short story writer screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his novels, which include A Good Man in Africa (1981), Any Human Heart (2002), and Restless (2006), many of which have received critical acclaim and literary awards. Boyd has also written screenplays for film and television, including Chaplin (1992), and directed the World War I drama The Trench (1999). His work is characterised by its narrative vitality and range, earning him numerous accolades including the Whitbread First Novel Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Costa Book Award. A number of his works are what he describes as "whole-life" novels which follow a protagonist through the highs and lows of a varied and often remarkable life. He regularly fuses fact with fiction and his lead characters encounter well-known historical figures. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005 for services to literature. John Self, writing for The Booker Prizes, described Boyd’s work as “vigorous, entertaining novels” produced by an “exceptionally fertile imagination,” and praised his fiction as “fully committed to his stories and characters.”
