Contributions

  • Costa, Margaret Jull - Contributor

Publication

2011 - W.F. Howes, Rearsby [England, England

Language

English

Word Count

74,250 words, Guess

Page Count

297 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more
  • Better World BooksKO-695-665
  • Better World Books9781407493428
  • Better World BooksKO-157-504
  • Open LibraryOL32140912M

Classifications

  • DDC899.923

Description

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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Seven houses in FranceW.F. Howes2011-01-01

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