An Ice-cream War

　　1982 年獲得約翰列威林萊斯紀念獎 （John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize），並入圍布克獎決選（Booker Prize）

　　An Ice-Cream War is William Boyd's sparkling debut novel on the grimly comic side of conflict, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

　　'What do you think would happen if I shot an elephant in the balls?'
'I think it would hurt a great deal.'

　　Millions die on the Western Front but in East Africa a quite different war is being waged - one with little point and which is so ignored that it will carry on after the Armistice because no one bothers to tell both sides to stop.

　　As the conflict sweeps up natives and colonials, so those left at home and those fighting abroad find themselves unable to escape the tide of history bearing down on them.

作者簡介

威廉．波伊德　William Boyd

　　1952年生於加納，成長於奈及利亞，目前定居倫敦。

　　作品獲獎無數：

　　－1981年以《非洲好人》 （A Good Man in Africa）獲得懷特布萊德文學獎新作獎（Whitbread Literary Award for the Best First Novel）

　　－1982 年以《冰淇淋戰爭》（An Ice-Cream War）獲得約翰列威林萊斯紀念獎 （John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize），並入圍布克獎決選（Booker Prize）;

　　－1990年以《布萊薩維爾海灘》（Brazzaville Beach）獲得布萊克小說紀念獎（James Tait Black Memorial Prize）；

　　－1995年以《藍色下午》（The Blue Afternoon）獲得洛杉磯時報小說獎（Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction）

　　本書更獲得2006年柯思達小說獎（Costa Novel Award），並為 2007 年英國「李查和茱蒂」讀書俱樂部年度選書。

　　William Boyd is the author of ten novels, including A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Any Human Heart, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet; Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year, the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year and a Richard & Judy selection, and most recently, the bestselling Ordinary Thunderstorms.