René Leys

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."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 07/31/2003
ISBN: 9781590170410
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.52d