num_pages: 169
description: The Vice-Consul is a bleak, enigmatic novel. Set in the steamy monsoon heat of Calcutta, it brings together three suffering characters. There is Anne-Marie Stretter, beautiful wife of the French ambassador, seeking the love of younger men as if desperate for a carefree youth she never had. One of those men who falls for her is the former Vice-Consul of Lahore, an awkward, solitary man prone to irrational, violent rages. And there is a mysterious Cambodian beggar woman whose presence in India intrigues the Europeans, just as the woman herself seems drawn to them. Excerpted from a review at Amazon.com
language: English
title: The Vice-Consul
titlecomplete: The Vice-Consul
characters: Anne-Marie Stretter
genres: 20th Century, Female Authors, French Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Womens, Literature, Classics, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 1141
places: Calcutta
publisher: Pantheon