num_pages: 310
description: The Polyglots is the story of an eccentric Belgian family living in the Far East in the uncertain years after World War I and the Russian Revolution. The tale is recounted by their dryly conceited young English relative, Captain Georges Hamlet Alexander Diabologh, who comes to stay with them during a military mission. Teeming with bizarre characters—depressives, obsessives, paranoiacs, hypochondriacs, and sex maniacs—Gerhardie paints a brilliantly absurd world where the comic and the tragic are profoundly and irrevocably entwined.
language: English
title: The Polyglots
titlecomplete: The Polyglots
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Belgium, Humor, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 253
publisher: Carlton Publishing Group