Description - Seven Houses in France by Bernardo Atxaga
Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012 - a dark tale of human ambition by the European master A.S. Byatt called 'A brilliantly inventive writer'.
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 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 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 Li ge.
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