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Chang and eng

In this stunning novel, Darin Strauss combines fiction with astonishing fact to tell the story of history's most famous 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.

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  • "Chang and Eng"@he
  • "Chang & Eng"@en
  • "Chang en Eng"
  • "Chang et Eng"

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  • "In this stunning novel, Darin Strauss combines fiction with astonishing fact to tell the story of history's most famous 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."@en
  • "Retrace avec tendresse l'histoire singulière des frères siamois Bunker nés au XIXe siècle. De la misère à la richesse, d'une solitude désespérée à l'amour sans limite, de la cour du Roi de Siam jusqu'à leur chambre surpeuplée dans leur maison de Caroline du Nord, ce récit révèle l'humanité des deux frères. Premier roman."
  • "Chang und Eng lebten 1811-74; sie wurden in Siam geboren, waren in der Mitte des Leibes zusammengewachsen und durch ein Band aus Muskeln und Gefäßen verbunden, besaßen nur einen Magen und konnten nie getrennt werden, so sehr sie es gewünscht hätten (Ursprung des Begriffs 'Siamesische Zwillinge'). Sie reisten mit dem Zirkus Barnum durch die Welt, wurden 1842 in North Carolina ansässig, heirateten und hatten viele Kinder. Soweit sind die Fakten belegt. Der Roman bringt das Leben beider aus der Perspektive des Eng, wobei den praktischen Alltagsproblemen ebensoviel Gewicht zukommt wie der Ehegeschichte und Seelenzustand Engs, der als der Klügere und Sensiblere von beiden zunehmend am gefesselten Dasein litt. Das ungewöhnliche Thema ist mit Verstand und Takt bewältigt."
  • "Het geromantiseerde levensverhaal van de oorspronkelijke, 19e-eeuwse Siamese tweeling Chang en Eng, verteld door Eng."
  • "In this stunning novel, Darin Strauss combines fiction with astonishing fact to tell the story of historyrsquo;s most famous 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 worldrsquo;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, Straussrsquo;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 centuryrsquo;s most fabled human oddities from the sideshow of history, drawing from their extraordinary lives a novel of exceptional power and beauty. Now in paperback comes the brilliant reimagining of the remarkable lives of the original "Siamese Twins". 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 19th century's most fabled human oddities from the sideshow of history."@en
  • ""Chang and Eng Bunker were the Siamese twins for whom the term was coined, one of the nineteenth century's most fabled human oddities. Now Darin Strauss has rescued the twins from the sideshow of history, drawing from their extraordinary conjoined lives a first novel of exceptional beauty."--Jacket."
  • ""Chang and Eng Bunker were the Siamese twins for whom the term was coined, one of the nineteenth century's most fabled human oddities. Now Darin Strauss has rescued the twins from the sideshow of history, drawing from their extraordinary conjoined lives a first novel of exceptional beauty."--Jacket."@en
  • "In this stunning novel, Darin Strauss combines fiction with astonishing fact to tell the story of history's most famous 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."@en

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  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Fiction"@he
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Biographical fiction"
  • "Biographical fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Chang & Eng : le double garçon"
  • "Chang and Eng"
  • "Chang and eng"@en
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "Chang y Eng"@es
  • "Chang y Eng"
  • "Chang & [et] Eng, le double-garçon : roman"
  • "Chang & Eng : a novel"
  • "צ'נג ואנג"
  • "Chang and Eng : a novel"@en
  • "Chang and Eng : a novel"
  • "Zhang an xiong di"
  • "Chang & Eng"@en
  • "Chang and Eng [Large print version] : a novel"@en
  • "Chang & Eng"@ca
  • "Chang & Eng"
  • "Chang & Eng : le double-garçon : roman"
  • "Chang et Eng : le double garçon"
  • "Chang und Eng : Roman"
  • "צ׳נג ואנג"
  • "Chang und Eng : [Die siamesischen Zwillinge]"
  • "章安兄弟"
  • "Chang and Eng a novel"
  • "Chang and Eng a novel"@en
  • "Ts'ang ṿe-Eng"
  • "Chang and eng : A novel"

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