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SEVEN HOUSES IN FRANCE
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Bernardo Atxaga, Margaret Jull Costa (Trans) |
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ISBN 10: |
0099552256 |
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9780099552253 |
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VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
Pub. date: |
1 November, 2012 |
Pages: |
256 |
Description: |
1903, and Captain Lalande Biran, overseeing a garrison on the banks of the Congo, has an ambition: to amass a fortune and return to the literary cafes of Paris. His glamorous wife Christine has a further ambition: to own seven houses in France, a house for every year he has been abroad. |
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1903, and Captain Lalande Biran, overseeing a garrison on the banks of the Congo, has an ambition: to amass a fortune and return to the literary cafes of Paris. His glamorous wife Christine has a further ambition: to own seven houses in France, a house for every year he has been abroad. At the Captain's side are an ex-legionnaire womaniser, and a servile, treacherous man who dreams of running a brothel. At their hands the jungle is transformed into a wild circus of human ambition and absurdity. But everything changes with the arrival of a new officer and brilliant marksman: the enigmatic Chrysostome Liege. |
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UK |
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Vintage |
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