The Vice-Consul
The French vice-consul at Lahore has been withdrawn to Calcutta after firing a revolver at night into the Shalimar gardens, and at a reception he fixes on the ambassador's wife. Running alongside him is the ten-year walk of a Cambodian girl turned out of her mother's house pregnant, a story a European writer in the same city is trying to compose. The central book of the India cycle, where the same figures start moving from one work to the next.
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