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The Polyglots

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.

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