Description |
250 pages ; 21 cm |
Summary |
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. |
Language |
Text in English, translated from Spanish; originally published in Basque. |
Subject |
Armies -- Officers -- Fiction.
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Poets -- Fiction.
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Kidnapping -- Fiction.
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Yangambi (Congo) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Imperialism -- Fiction.
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Added Author |
Costa, Margaret Jull. Translator.
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Added Title |
Zazpi etxe Frantzian. English
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ISBN |
9781555976231 paperback |
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1555976239 paperback |
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