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Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Physical Desc
250 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
The year is 1903, and the garrison of Yangambi on the banks of the 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 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 Lalande Biran?s side are the ex-legionnaire van Thiegel, a brutal womanizer, and the servile,...
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