Title: Seven houses in France
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: Poets, Fiction, Armies, Officers, Kidnapping, Large type books, Interpersonal relations, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Africa, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, war & military
Places: Yangambi (Congo), Congo (Democratic Republic), Yangambi
Time periods: 20th century