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Brazzaville beach

Hope Clearwater lives alone in a beach house in an unnamed African country, trying to patch together her shattered life. An ecologist, she had come to Africa to participate in primate research and to heal the deep wounds of her marriage to a brilliant English mathematician; but she soon found herself plunged into another crisis, one that threatened not only her career but also her life. In a book packed with scientific and mathematical metaphors, Boyd explores how people create, defend, ignore, or subvert the belief systems that govern their lives. If on one level this is an intellectual thriller, on another it is very much an exciting and riveting adventure story, and on yet another a subtle examination of the power grid of personal relationships.

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  • "Hope Clearwater lives alone in a beach house in an unnamed African country, trying to patch together her shattered life. An ecologist, she had come to Africa to participate in primate research and to heal the deep wounds of her marriage to a brilliant English mathematician; but she soon found herself plunged into another crisis, one that threatened not only her career but also her life. In a book packed with scientific and mathematical metaphors, Boyd explores how people create, defend, ignore, or subvert the belief systems that govern their lives. If on one level this is an intellectual thriller, on another it is very much an exciting and riveting adventure story, and on yet another a subtle examination of the power grid of personal relationships."@en
  • "Een Engelse biologe houdt zich na een mislukt huwelijk in Angola bezig met onderzoek naar het gedrag van chimpansees die elkaar lijken te vermoorden."
  • "Hope Clearwater lives on an African beach reassessing the complicated, violent and tragic events which have occurred in her life. How much has she been responsible? How could she have foreseen the dangers? How could she have acted differently?"@en
  • "Boyd's adroitly written tale of romantic suspense is told from the point of view of a woman who flees marital difficulties in England to study chimpanzees in Africa. --Publishers Weekly."
  • "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."@en
  • "Dr Hope Clearwater lives on an African beach reflecting on the complicated, violent and tragic events that brought her there her stormy marriage to John, a brilliant mathematician, her painstaking research work among the wild chimpanzees in the national park, her encounters with the chaos of the civil war. She examines her past and tries to find tranquility."@en
  • "Hope Clearwater, an ecologist and wife of a mathematician, looks back on the events that led her to leave England and her husband."@en
  • "Roman africain (l'auteur y est n ̌et y a vču 22 ans) que le talentueux črivain meuble d'aperu̇s philosophiques et scientifiques parfaitement intercalš dans la trame de l'histoire o ̮circule une brillante ťhologue qui ťudie les chimpanzš. [SDM]."

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  • "Tekstuitgave"
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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
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  • "Brazzaville beach"
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  • "Brazzavillestrand"
  • "Brazzaville Plage : roman"
  • "Brazzaville Beach : [romanzo]"
  • "Brazzaville Plage"
  • "Playa de Brazzaville"
  • "Playa de Brazzaville"@es
  • "Brazzaville plage"
  • "Brazzaville Beach : Roman"
  • "Nainen rannalla"@fi
  • "Nainen rannalla"
  • "Brazzaville Beach : a novel"@en
  • "Brazzaville Beach : a novel"
  • "Brazzaville plage : roman"
  • "Brazzaville Beach Roman"
  • "Brazzavillská pláž"
  • "Brazzaville Plage roman"
  • "Brazzaville Beach : [roman]"@sv
  • "Playa de Brazzaville = Brazzaville Beach"
  • "Brazzaville Beach a novel"@en
  • "Brazzavile plage : roman"
  • "Brazzavilʹ- Bich : roman"
  • "Brazzaville beach ;novel"
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  • "Brazzaville Beach"@en
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  • "Brazzaville Beach"
  • "Brazzaville beach a novel"@en
  • "Brazzaville beach : a novel"
  • "Brazzaville beach : a novel"@en

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