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Original Title:	Brazzaville Beach
ISBN:	0380780496 (ISBN13: 9780380780495)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Hope Clearwater, Eugene Mallabar, John Clearwater, Usman Shoukry
Setting:	Republic of the Congo(Central African Republic)
Literary Awards:	James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (1990)

Brazzaville Beach

William Boyd

ebook | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 3.94 | 4696 Users | 350 Reviews

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In the heart of a civil war-torn African nation, primate researcher Hope Clearwater made a shocking discovery about apes and man . . . Young, alone, and far from her family in Britain, Hope Clearwater contemplates the extraordinary events that left her washed up like driftwood on Brazzaville Beach. It is here, on the distant, lonely outskirts of Africa, where she must come to terms with the perplexing and troubling circumstances of her recent past. For Hope is a survivor of the devastating cruelities of apes and humans alike. And to move forward, she must first grasp some hard and elusive truths: about marriage and madness, about the greed and savagery of charlatan science . . . and about what compels seemingly benign creatures to kill for pleasure alone.

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Title	:	Brazzaville Beach
Author	:	William Boyd
Book Format	:	ebook
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	August 1st 1995 by Harper Perennial (first published September 2nd 1990)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Contemporary

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I told my uncle I needed a book I could disappear in, and he lended me this one. I loved every page of it, being so fascinating and urging me to read the next. I never read a book I can compare to this story but I really do hope I will.

Brazzaville Beach tells the stories of Hope Clearwater. It covers two periods, telling them in parallel although one follows the other chronologically. Each period comes to a dramatic conclusion. The book builds to deliver both conclusions as close together as the narrative allows. There are themes that recur in Hope's experiences. There is anger, violence, madness, conspiracy. There is violence instigated by academics, and tenderness provided by soldiers.So far I've described a complex

I delighted in this book because it tells a compelling human story with a rich framework of ideas that appeal to me. The tale is of a woman, Hope Clearwater, reflecting back on her work and marriage in England to a mathematician and her work and life studying chimp behavior in the Republic of Congo, both of which ended in disaster. She is unable to move forward without making some sense out of the wisdom vs. stupidities in her role in the disasters. As quoted from Socrates in the epilogue and

If this book hadn't been recommended by a friend who loved it, I probably wouldn't have read the whole book. I had a difficult time getting into the story, but I stuck with it and was glad I did. The main character of the book is Hope Clearwater, an English woman, who is studying the behavior of chimpanezes in Africa. Her story is told by moving back and forth from past to present, which I thought was very well done by the talented Mr. Boyd. The subject matter of the brutality of the animals was

Brazzaville Beach is a well-plotted novel about science, war and ideas, following the adventures of Hope Clearwater in England and the Congo.

I really enjoy Boyds writing, its so real and full. His characters are well developed, the story lines completely thought out, and in the case of Brazzaville Beach, intensely gripping. A great read.

I suppose that the message of this book is how ironic it is that humans avidly study chimpanzees, presumptiously thinking that they are less intelligent than themselves, only to find, on closer inspection, (see the mad scientists, the ridiculous wars, the wanton cruelty), that humans, while maybe more "intelligent," are by no means "better" creatures.This premise is interesting and could make a good book. But I find this one is lacking in empathy, either for the chimpanzees or for any of the