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Seven houses in France / Bernardo Atxaga ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
- Title
- Seven houses in France / Bernardo Atxaga ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
- Author
- Atxaga, Bernardo
- Publication
- London : Harvill Secker, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PH5339.A8 Z2913 2011 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Costa, Margaret Jull.
- Description
- 250 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- The year is 1903, and the garrison of Yangambi on the banks of the River 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 cafes 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 womaniser, 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.
- Uniform Title
- Zazpi etxe Frantzian. English
- Alternative Title
- Zazpi etxe Frantzian.
- 7 houses in France
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Basque.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781846554476 (hbk)
- 1846554470 (hbk)
- OCLC
- 762074255
- SCSB-11494279
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library