num_pages: 314
description: A story set in Africa and seen through the eyes of a young woman who is working on a field study of chimpanzees. The author also wrote A Good Man in Africa, An Ice-Cream War, Stars and Bars, The New Confessions and On the Yankee Station.
language: English
title: Brazzaville Beach
titlecomplete: Brazzaville Beach
characters: Hope Clearwater, Eugene Mallabar, Usman Shoukry, John Clearwater
genres: Fiction, Adventure, Thriller, Book Club, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Africa
ratings_count: 5855
places: Brazzaville
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: William Morrow and Company, Inc