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Title: The Polyglots
Publisher: Apollo Library 05/10/2017
Publication Date: 2017
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1786694786
ISBN 13: 9781786694782
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good

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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.

About the Author

William Gerhardie (1895-1977) was born in St Petersburg. Leaving Russia in the wake of the 1917 revolution, Gerhardie travelled to Siberia with the British Military Mission. After two years there, he left the army with an OBE, sailing to England by way of Singapore, Colombo and Port Said - a journey that forms the closing chapters of The Polyglots. He died in London in 1977.

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