Seven Houses in France
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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.
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PUBLISHED
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: 250 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781555976231
1555976239
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Costa, Margaret Jull.
SUBJECTS
Armies -- Officers -- Fiction.
Poets -- Fiction.
Kidnapping -- Fiction.
Imperialism -- Fiction.
Yangambi (Congo) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.