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Seven Houses in France

Bernardo Atxaga Margaret Jull Costa

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English
Vintage
15 November 2012
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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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 16mm
Weight:   186g
ISBN:   9780099552253
ISBN 10:   0099552256
Pages:   256
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Bernardo Atxaga was born in Gipuzkoa in Spain in 1951 and lives in the Basque Country, writing in Basque and Spanish. He is a prizewinning novelist and poet, whose books, including Obabakoak and The Accordionist's Son, have won critical acclaim in Spain and abroad. His works have been translated into twenty-two languages. Margaret Jull Costa has been a literary translator from Spanish and Portugese for over twenty years, translating such writers as Jose Saramago, E a de Queiroz, Luis Fernando Verissimo and Fernando Pessoa. Her work has brought her a number of prizes, the most recent of which was the 2010 Premio Valle-Inclan for Javier Marias' Your Face Tomorrow 3- Poison, Shadow and Farewell.

Reviews for Seven Houses in France

A brilliantly inventive writer... He understands the nature of storytelling and is at once terribly moving and wildly funny. --A.S. Byatt


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