Seven Houses in France
Bernardo Atxaga author Margaret Jull Costa translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:1st Nov '12
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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 cafés of Paris.
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.
A dark comedy about the vanity of human desires which deftly balances compassion and cynicism * Financial Times *
Bizarrely funny and beautifully crafted * Times Literary Supplement *
Undeniably compelling * Daily Mail *
A brilliantly inventive writer...He understands the nature of storytelling and is at once terribly moving and wildly funny -- A. S. Byatt
Seven Houses in France is an enjoyable, somewhat frightening novel by one of Europe's best novelists... Atxaga is still the master of a complex story, told with deceptive simplicity -- Michael Eaude * Independent *
ISBN: 9780099552253
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 16mm
Weight: 186g
256 pages