Seven Houses in France

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<p>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.</p><p>His glamorous wife Christine has a further ambition: to own seven houses in France, a house for every year he has been abroad.</p><p>At the Captains 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.</p>

Autorenportrait

<p>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<i>Obabakoak</i>and<i>The Accordionist's Son</i>, have won critical acclaim in Spain and abroad. His works have been translated into twenty-two languages.</p><p>Margaret Jull Costa has been a literary translator from Spanish and Portugese for over twenty years, translating such writers as José Saramago, Eça 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-Inclán for Javier Marías<i>Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison,</i><i>Shadow</i>and<i>Farewell</i>.</p>

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