Description: Ex library book - Has the usual strikeovers, marks and shelf wear From the author of the beloved best seller Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, a haunting tale of love and of the beguiling power of a lost language. When Puyi, the last emperor, was exiled to Manchuria in the early 1930s, it is said that he carried an eight-hundred-year-old silk scroll inscribed with a lost sutra composed by the Buddha. Eventually the scroll would be sold illicitly to an eccentric French linguist named Paul d'Ampere, in a transaction that would land him in prison, where he would devote his life to studying the ineffably beautiful ancient language of the forgotten text.
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Year: 2009
Special Attributes: Ex-Library
Original Language: French
Book Title: Once on a Moonless Night
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2009
Topic: European / French, Literary, Romance / General
Genre: Literary Criticism, Fiction
Item Weight: 13.6 Oz
Item Length: 8.3 in
Author: Sijie Dai, Adriana Hunter
Item Width: 5.3 in
Format: Hardcover