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Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction

Seven Houses in France

Bernardo Atxaga (author), Margaret Jull Costa (translator)

Paperback Published on: 01/11/2012; Language: English, Basque (Original language of a translated text)

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Synopsis

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 cafés 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 Liège.