num_pages: 408
description: As World War I reaches into the East Africa colonies, two English brothers, Gabriel and Felix, find themselves bound by their attitudes toward the war, their love for one another and for one woman, and their fragmenting empire
language: English
title: An Ice-Cream War
titlecomplete: An Ice-Cream War
characters: Amory Holland, Liesl von Bishop, Charis Cobb, Philip Holland, Gilzean, Felix Cobb, Walter Smith, Gabriel Cobb, Wheech-Browning, Major Bilderbeck, Erich von Bishop
genres: Historical Fiction, Historical, World War I, Africa, Literary Fiction, Military Fiction, War, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor
ratings_count: 3941
places: Africa, England, German East Africa, East Africa, British Empire
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
publisher: William Morrow & Co