ISBN: | 9780879513504 |
Publisher: | Overlook Press |
Published: | 1 September, 1989 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
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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 Ren� 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 Ren� presents his increasingly dazzled disciple with a visionary glimpse of "an essential palace built upon the most magnificent foundations.
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