An Ice Cream War

Informationen zum 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. Any Human Heart was longlisted for the Booker Prize and adapted into a TV series with Channel 4. In 2005, Boyd was awarded the CBE. He is married and divides his time between London and south-west France. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: William Boyd, Boyd William
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.08.2011
• EAN: 9780241953563
• ISBN: 978-0-241-95356-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Decades; Penguin Decades; Penguin Decades
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Romance / General, Historical romance, FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, East Africa, Fiction: general and literary, Fiction: narrative themes, Fiction-Related Items, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), ELT Literature & Fiction Readers