Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Segalen, Victor; Buruma, Ian; Underwood, J. A. |
| Publisher: | NYRB Classics |
| Date: | 7/31/2003 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| 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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