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Title: Seven Houses in France <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: Bernardo Atxaga <>Publisher: VINTAGE
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"A dark comedy about the vanity of human desires which deftly balances compassion and cynicism" (Financial Times)
"Bizarrely funny and beautifully crafted" (Times Literary Supplement)
"Undeniably compelling" (Daily Mail)
"A brilliantly inventive writer...He understands the nature of storytelling and is at once terribly moving and wildly funny" (A. S. Byatt)
"Seven Houses in France is an enjoyable, somewhat frightening novel by one of Europe's best novelists... Atxaga is still the master of a complex story, told with deceptive simplicity" (Michael Eaude Independent)
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"Bizarrely funny and beautifully crafted" (Times Literary Supplement)
"Undeniably compelling" (Daily Mail)
"A brilliantly inventive writer...He understands the nature of storytelling and is at once terribly moving and wildly funny" (A. S. Byatt)
"Seven Houses in France is an enjoyable, somewhat frightening novel by one of Europe's best novelists... Atxaga is still the master of a complex story, told with deceptive simplicity" (Michael Eaude Independent)
Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012 - a dark tale of human ambition by the European master A.S. Byatt called 'A brilliantly inventive writer'.
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