William Boyd, William Boyd — Ice Cream War. William Boyd

Paperback; 1e druk, 2011; Penguin Books Ltd; 416pp.; LET OP LET OP deze paperback wordt geleverd met ANDER OMSLAG dan getoond, te weten van Penguin heruitgave 2011. Staat van boek is goed, iets scheef gelezen rug met fijne leesvouwtjes. -- Conditie: Goed; Follows the fortunes of several wildly different characters - including an expat farmer and a young English aristocrat - as they are swept up in the fighting in German East Africa during the First World War, their lives converging amid battle, betrayal, love, comedy and tragedy. 'As ambitious as it is remarkable. Balances on seesaws of innocence and violence, sanity and lunacy, hilarity and horror' The Times _____________________________ 'We will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!' British soldier, East Africa, 1914 On the Western Front millions are being slaughtered. But in East Africa a ridiculous and utterly ignored campaign is being waged - one that continues after the Armistice because no one bothers to tell the participants to stop. As the conflict sweeps up Africans and colonials, so those left at home and those fighting abroad find themselves unable to escape the tide of history bearing down on them. _____________________________ 'A towering achievement' John Carey 'Compulsively readable' Blake Morrison, Observer 'Funny, assured, a seriocomic romp. A study of people caught in the side pockets of calamity that dramatizes their plights with humour, detail and grit' Harper's; Engels; ISBN10: 0241953561, ISBN13: 9780241953563