by William Boyd · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781443409810
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«Waiting for Sunrise» is the spy novel by William Boyd, published by Harper Perennial in paperback (384 pages, in English).
Vienna, 1913. English actor Lysander Rief visits a psychotherapist and falls in love with an enigmatic woman. Accused of assault, he flees with the help of British diplomats. In London, his rescuers recruit him to kill a stranger; the reappearance of his lover leads him to investigate a traitor linked to his own family.
Originally published in 2012, this Harper Perennial edition is from 2013. Work nominated for the European Book Prize in 2012.
For readers of historical thrillers and spy novels set on the eve of 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.”
