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- 2012
- year of publication
- 256
- pages
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- Softcover
- cover
- Publisher
- Vintage
- ISBN-13
- 978-00-9955-225-3
- EAN
- 9780099552253
- Publication date
- 2012-11-01
- Book
- Seven Houses in France · 2 editions
The publisher on this edition
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.
