Brazzaville Beach

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. New Download [ Brazzaville Beach ] author [ William Boyd ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Brazzaville Beach literary novel as absorbing page turner William Boyd proves himself master of the craft so much drama, so much suspense.The skinny twentysomething Hope Clearwater lives on Brazzaville Beach in West Africa, recovering from two major shocks in her life The first relates to her former husband back in England, an accomplished mathematician by the name of John Clearwater, a man obsessed and driven to formulate groundbreaking equations within the fields of game theory and Brazzaville Beach literary novel as absorbing page turner William Boyd proves himself master of the craft so much drama, so much suspense.The skinny twentysomething Hope Clearwater lives on Brazzaville Beach in West Africa, recovering from two major shocks in her life The first relates to her former husband back in England, an accomplished mathematician by the name of John Clearwater, a man obsessed and driven to formulate groundbreaking equations within the fields of game theory and turbulence The second revolves around Hope s recent participation in the nearby Grosso Arvore Research Project studying chimpanzees under the direction of the world s foremost expert on primates, Eugene Mallabar.Wha...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 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 close of the book, An unexamined life is not worth living Boyd alternates the narrative of Hope s life in Africa, told in first...Oh my, this book is hard to explain First of all, it IS engaging I didn t want to stop listening It is full of information It keeps you thinking, and it doesn t necessarily provide answers Definitely four stars It starts and ends with the line The unexamined life is not worth living I guess you would have to classify this as a cerebral novel, but also the parts set in Africa are dramatic one thing happens after another a civil war and infanticide and aggression and cannibalism and Oh my, this book is hard to explain First of all, it IS engaging I didn t want to stop listening It is full of information It keeps you thinking, and it doesn t necessarily provide answers Definitely four stars It starts and ends with the line The unexamined life is not worth living I guess you would have to classify this as a cerebral novel, but also the parts set in Africa are dramatic one thing happens after another a civil war and infanticide and aggression and cannibalism and murder Not one, but several Murder of chimpanzees, but they are so similar to human beings that these too must be seen as murders Chimpanzees and bonobos are the closest living relatives to human beings Chimpanzees areaggressive than bonobos.There are three threads which flip back and forth This is, until you get the knack of it, confusing One thread is years ago when Hope i...Many years before Brazzaville Beach was ever published, William Blake published this well known poem as part of his Songs of Experience Tyger, tyger burning bright In the forests of the night What immortal hand or eye Could flame thy fearful symmetry Blake, who was overwhelmed by the beauty and horrors of the natural world, saw nature as a place for our own growth, in preparation for the beginning of our lives.Why the longish preface about Blake Brazzaville Beach is, to some degree, about Many years before Brazzaville Beach was ever published, William Blake published this well known poem as part of his Songs of Experience Tyger, tyger burning bright In the forests of the night What immortal hand or eye Could flame thy fearful symmetry Blake, who was overwhelmed by the beauty and horrors of the natural world, saw nature as a place for our own growth, in preparation for the beginning of our lives.Why the lon... Brazzaville Beach is a well plotted novel about science, war and ideas, following the adventures of Hope Clearwater in England and the Congo.Of chimps and humansAs Hope Clearwater sits on the beach outside her home in the Republic of the Congo, she looks back over the circumstances of her life that have brought her here her marriage to mathematician John Clearwater, and her later work at Grosso Arvore, a chimpanzee research project run by the world famous primate expert, Eugene Mallabar The two stories, though separate, have the common theme of the pursuit of scientific fame and the toll that can take on those who fail There Of chimps and humansAs Hope Clearwater sits on the beach outside her home in the Republic of the Congo, she looks back over the circumstances of her life that have brought her here her marriage to mathematician John Clearwater, and her later work at Grosso Arvore, a chimpanzee research project run by the world famous primate expert, Eugene Mallabar The two stories, though separate, have the common theme of the pursuit of scientific fame and the toll that can take on those who fail There are other themes too the war that rumbles on in the Congo, the evolutionary and genetic links between human and chimp and a third ...Like his 2012 book, WAITING FOR SUNRISE, Boyd employed a complex structure in this 1990 novel about science and discord, both marital and professional Structure and the sciences are the glue for connecting the themes and metaphors of his overall story, a device for annexing separate compartments of the narrative and cohering it into a whole Once you let that be, or let it go, and stop worrying if you are comprehending all the pieces while reading it, you can enjoy this compelling piece of Like his 2012 book, WAITING FOR SUNRISE, Boyd employed a complex structure in this 1990 novel about science and discord, both marital and professional Structure and the sciences are the glue for connecting the themes and metaphors of his overall story, a device for annexing separate compartments of the narrative and cohering it into a whole Once you let that be, or let it go, and stop worrying if you are comprehending all the pieces while reading it, you can enjoy this compelling piece of fiction.It takes place primarily in the continent of Boyd s birth, Africa he was raised i...When the novel opens, Hope Clearwater is living in a house on Brazzaville Beach that she owns as a result of her Egyptian lover s death in the civil war in the Congo She is reflecting on the complexities of her life over the last two years and recuperating from being taken hostage by the rebels Hope is trying to figure out all that s happened to her, both in England with her husband and the events that caused her to flee to a new job in Africa, and the challenges she s faced since then How When the novel opens, Hope Clearwater is living in a house on Brazzaville Beach that she owns as a result of her Egyptian lover s death in the civil war in the Congo She is reflecting on the complexities of her life over the last two y...A touching and wrenching tale of a woman s experiences in her personal life and career, with a backstory set in Africa Hope Clearwater faces many challenges with her work as a scientist much of the time observing chimpanzees near a remote, academic camp in Africa, as well as the emotional upheavals in her marriage to an eccentric mathematician With a wide variety of settings, quirkiness, and unsettling events, the reader is given a unique glimpse into Hope s unfailingly human reactions to A touching and wrenching tale of a woman s experiences in her personal life and career, with a backstory set in Africa Hope Clearwater faces many challenges with her work as a scientist much of the time observing chimpanzees near a remote, academic camp in Africa, as well as the emotional upheavals in her marriage to an eccentric mathematician With a wide variety of settings, quirkiness, and unsettling events, the reader is given a unique glimpse into Hope s unfailingly human reactions to the tumult, and her steadfastness in keeping true to herself and not what others want her to be for their self interests.The author has created such an honest and sympathetic character in Hope that it seemed as if each time I began reading it was like spending time with a friend an honest friend who isn t afraid to share her feelings I did...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 Brazzaville Beach tells the stories of Hope Clearwater It covers two periods, telling them in parallel although one follows the other ch...

• English
• 21 May 2019
William Boyd
• ebook
• 320 pages
• 0380780496
• William Boyd
• Brazzaville Beach