An Ice-Cream War

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: William Boyd
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 14.08.2014
• EAN: 9780241970751
• ISBN: 978-0-241-97075-1
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 181 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Essential Penguin; Penguin Essentials; Penguin Essentials; Essential Penguin
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; 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