One character in this novel is a mythomaniac who is described saying "however he was dressed . .
One character in this novel is a mythomaniac who is described saying "however he was dressed . . . looked disguised,"and he reappears as the author of the fiÂlm script The Reign of Evil in the author's later book Anti-Memoirs. One characteris instructed to bring a pet bird in a cage as a giftft for his mistress, but when he sees an Englishman in the hotel also carrying acaged bird he buys forty birds and a kangaroo and unleashes them in her room. In a scene when a number of captives are aboutto be burned alive in a train's boiler room, one character gives his cyanide pill to two other prisoners. The protagonist of thisnovel goes to the Black Cat nightclub to arrange for a man to deliver a forged order to a ship and listens to a coded messagein the form of a language lesson at Hemmelrich's shop. Baron de Clappique escapes on a ship to France disguised as a sailorafter failing to secure Kyo Gisors's or Katov's release from prison. In this novel, the terrorist Ch-en blows himself up whilehiding under a car in a failed attempt to assassinate Chiang Kai-Shek. For 10 points, name this novel about Communist rebelsin Shanghai by Andre Malraux.
One character in this novel is a mythomaniac who is described saying "however he was dressed . .
Man's Fate [or La Condition Humaine]