Seven Houses in France e-bog
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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 caf s 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 ...
E-bog
82,58 DKK
Forlag
Vintage Digital
Udgivet
3 november 2011
Længde
256 sider
Genrer
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781409028260
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 caf s 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.