An Ice-cream War: 'Compulsively' Readable Observer (Penguin Essentials, 40) - Softcover

Boyd, William

 
9780241970751: An Ice-cream War: 'Compulsively' Readable Observer (Penguin Essentials, 40)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 024197075X ISBN 13: 9780241970751
Verlag: Penguin, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

An Ice-Cream War is William Boyd's sparkling debut novel on the grimly comic side of conflict, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

'What do you think would happen if I shot an elephant in the balls?'
'I think it would hurt a great deal.'

Millions die on the Western Front but in East Africa a quite different war is being waged - one with little point and which is so ignored that it will carry on after the Armistice because no one bothers to tell both sides to stop.

As the conflict sweeps up natives and colonials, so those left at home and those fighting abroad find themselves unable to escape the tide of history bearing down on them.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana, and grew up there and in Nigeria. He is the author of sixteen highly acclaimed, bestselling novels and five collections of stories. He is married and divides his time between London and south-west France. His most recent novel, Trio, was a Sunday Times bestseller.

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An Ice-Cream War is William Boyd's sparkling debut novel on the grimly comic side of conflict, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

'What do you think would happen if I shot an elephant in the balls?'
'I think it would hurt a great deal.'

Millions die on the Western Front but in East Africa a quite different war is being waged - one with little point and which is so ignored that it will carry on after the Armistice because no one bothers to tell both sides to stop.

As the conflict sweeps up natives and colonials, so those left at home and those fighting abroad find themselves unable to escape the tide of history bearing down on them.

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Verlag
Penguin
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
024197075X
ISBN 13 
9780241970751
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
416
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/

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Madrid
Madrid
Spanien

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