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by William Boyd · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140817669
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Morgan Leafy no está precisamente colmado de éxito mundano, sino que está agradablemente libre de él. Pero entonces, como representante de Su Majestad Británica en la tropical Kinjanja, no fue muy constructivo por su parte involucrarse en sobornos al por mayor con políticos locales delicados. 'Un buen hombre en África' se remonta a la era colonial británica y poco después. Utilizando detalles oscuramente irónicos, el autor delinea muy claramente por qué 'Inglaterra perdió el Imperio'. El Servicio Exterior en esta nación africana ficticia rica en petróleo es miope e inepto casi hasta la incredulidad. ¡El Sr. Boyd esboza un 'aullido' tras otro! Ciertamente, la novela es entretenida.
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.”
