Brazzaville Beach
- ISBN-10
- 0141044195
- ISBN-13
- 9780141044194
- Series
- Brazzaville Beach
- Category
- Africa
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Author
- William Boyd
Description
Dr Hope Clearwater lives on an African beach reflecting on the complicated, violent and tragic events that brought her there her stormy marriage to John, a brilliant mathematician, her painstaking research work among the wild chimpanzees in the national park, her encounters with the chaos of the civil war. She examines her past and tries to find tranquility.
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