Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss

Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss

This stunning novel combines fiction with astonishing fact to tell the story of history's most famous conjoined twins.

Born in Siam in 1811--on a squalid houseboat on the Mekong River--Chang and Eng Bunker were international celebrities before the age of twenty. Touring the world's stages as a circus act, they settled in the American South just prior to the Civil War. They eventually married two sisters from North Carolina, fathering twenty-one children between them, and lived for more than six decades never more than seven inches apart, attached at the chest by a small band of skin and cartilage.

Woven from the fabric of fact, myth, and imagination, Strauss's narrative gives poignant, articulate voice to these legendary brothers, and humanizes the freakish legend that grew up around them. Sweeping from the Far East and the court of the King of Siam to the shared intimacy of their lives in America, Chang and Eng rescues one of the nineteenth century's most fabled human oddities from the sideshow of history, drawing from their extraordinary lives a novel of exceptional power and beauty.

Darin Strauss is the bestselling author of three previous books. The recipient of a Guggenheim in fiction writing and numerous other awards, Strauss has seen his work translated into fourteen languages and published in more than twenty countries. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Writing at New York University, and he lives with his wife and children in Brooklyn.

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ISBN 13	9780525945123
ISBN 10	0525945121
Titel	Chang and Eng
Autor	Darin Strauss
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Penguin Putnam Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2000-06-01
Seitenanzahl	320
Preise	Winner of Alex Awards 2001
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