num_pages: 352
description: The unforgettable tale of an eccentric Belgian family through the uncertain years after WW1 and the Russian Revolution.Set in the Far East just after the First World War , Gerhardie's comic masterpiece in the tale of an eccentric Belgian family, recounted by their young English relative who comes to stay with them.Filled with bizarre characters – depressives, obsessives, paranoiacs and sex maniacs – Gerhardie paints a wonderfully strange world where the comic and tragic are 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: Head of Zeus