Rene Leys (New York Review Books)
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Rene Leys (New York Review Books)
Book Details
- Author
- Victor Segalen
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Lawyers & Criminals
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9781590170410
- ISBN-10
- 1590170415
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ISBN: 1590170415
Author: Segalen, Victor
Condition: New
In this entrancing story of spiritual adventure, a Westerner in Peking seeks the mystery at the heart of the Forbidden City. He takes as a tutor in Chinese the young Belgian René Leys, who claims to be in the know about strange goings-on in the Imperial Palace: love affairs, family quarrels, conspiracies that threaten the very existence of the empire. But whether truth-teller or trickster, the elusive and ever-charming René presents his increasingly dazzled disciple with a visionary glimpse of "an essential palace built upon the most magnificent foundations."
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