by William Boyd · SEUIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020125093
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«Brazzaville Plage» is the novel by William Boyd, published in 1991 by Seuil in paperback (360 pages, in French).
After retiring to an African beach, Hope Clearwater, a young ethologist, reconstructs her past: her marriage to the mathematician John Clearwater, obsessed with turbulence, and her later work at a primatology centre where she observes a colony of chimpanzees. The novel crosses both stages and speaks of loss, solitude and the search for meaning.
Cadre vert collection; translated from English by Christiane Besse; originally published as Brazzaville Beach; winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
For those who enjoy literary novels set in Africa that interweave nature, science and memory.
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.”
