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by Bernardo Atxaga; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)


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A brooding novel of colonial intrigue in the Congo, from the author of The Accordionist's Son and Obabakoak

The year is 1903, and the garrison of Yangambi on the banks of the Congo is under the command of Captain Lalande Biran. The captain is also a poet whose ambition is 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 Lalande Biran's side are the ex-legionnaire van Thiegel, a brutal womanizer, and the servile, treacherous Donatien, who dreams of running a brothel. The officers spend their days guarding enslaved rubber-tappers and kidnapping young girls, and 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. An outstanding new novel from the critically acclaimed and prizewinning author Bernardo Atxaga, Seven Houses in France is a blackly comic tale which reveals the darkest sides of human desire.

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  • Title Seven Houses in France
  • Author Bernardo Atxaga; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Advance Reader's
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Graywolf Press, Minneapolis
  • Date 2012-09
  • ISBN 9781555976231 / 1555976239
  • Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.21 x 5.54 x 0.75 in (20.85 x 14.07 x 1.91 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Dixon
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
  • Library of Congress subjects Kidnapping, Imperialism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012936225
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/15/2012, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 09/15/2012, Page 60
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/23/2012, Page 30
  • Publishers Weekly Best Books, 11/05/2012, Page 25

About the author

Bernardo Atxaga is a prizewinning novelist and poet, whose books, including Obabakoak and The Accordionist's Son, have won critical acclaim in Spain and abroad. His works have been translated into twenty-two languages, and he lives in the Basque country.
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