by William Boyd · SEUIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782021065008
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«L'Attente de l'aube» is the historical spy novel by William Boyd, published by Seuil in paperback (416 pages, in French).
Summer 1913: Lysander Rief, a young English actor, goes to Vienna for psychoanalysis. There he meets a strangely beautiful young woman who draws him into a spy plot: to uncover a secret code on which the allies' security depends, and the traitor. Sex, scandal and lies intertwine in pre-war Europe.
The original English work is titled Waiting for Sunrise. The French translation is by Christiane Besse and this edition belongs to the Cadre vert collection. The book was nominated for the European Book Prize in 2012.
For readers of historical and spy novels set in the years before World War I.
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.”
