# Seven Houses in France

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- Book: [Seven Houses in France](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernardo-atxaga/seven-houses-in-france) ([Seven Houses in France.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernardo-atxaga/seven-houses-in-france.md))
- Authors: [Bernardo Atxaga](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernardo-atxaga)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9955-225-3
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2012-11-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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 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.