by William Boyd · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781408818589
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«Waiting for Sunrise» is the historical and spy novel by William Boyd, published by Bloomsbury in paperback, with 368 pages in English.
In 1913, in Vienna, the English actor Lysander Rief visits the psychiatrist Dr. Bensimon and meets Hettie Bull in the waiting room, with whom he has an intense romance. When war breaks out, Lysander returns to London and becomes involved in British espionage, where he must decipher a secret code that threatens Britain's security.
The novel, published in 2012, was nominated for the European Book Prize in the fiction category.
A read for those seeking historical and spy fiction set in Europe during the First World War.
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.”
