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Book synopsis

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 Rene 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 Rene presents his increasingly dazzled disciple with a visionary glimpse of "an essential palace built upon the most magnificent foundations."

Book details

• Full title: Ren? Leys
• Author: Victor Segalen, Ian Buruma, J. a. Underwood
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9781590170410
• ISBN: 1590170415
• ID: 12331411
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Weight: 236 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 127 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: July 2003

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