by William Boyd · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020199599
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«Brazzaville Plage» is the novel by William Boyd, published by Seuil in paperback (368 pages, in French).
Hope Clearwater, ethologist, recalls in Brazzaville Plage the circumstances that led her there: her failed marriage to the mathematician John Clearwater and her subsequent work at an African primatology centre, where she observes a colony of chimpanzees with increasingly unsettling behaviour.
Original work in English: «Brazzaville Beach»; translation by Christiane Besse. The French edition was published in 1991. The work received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and of narrative set in Africa.
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.”
