Seven houses in France
Atxaga, Bernardo2012
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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 cafs 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 Captains 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 Lige.
Main title:
Seven houses in France / Bernardo Atxaga ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
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Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2012.
Collation:
250 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
This translation originally published: London: Harvill Secker, 2011.
ISBN:
9780099552253 (pbk)
Dewey class:
899.923
Language:
EnglishBasque
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BRN:
702893
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