by William Boyd · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420426730
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«Playa de Brazzaville» is the novel by William Boyd, published by Alfaguara in paperback (416 pages, in Spanish).
Hope Clearwater, an Englishwoman living in seclusion on a beach in West Africa, recalls the events that brought her there: her marriage to a mathematician obsessed with game theory and her work as an ethologist studying chimpanzees. The novel interweaves both stories to explore the violence and irrationality of apes and humans.
Originally published in English as «Brazzaville Beach» in 1990, it was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
For readers of literary fiction and book clubs interested in Africa and the complexity of human and animal behavior.
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.”
