by Han Suyin · Plaza Y Janes · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401381140
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«Ayuthia» is the historical novel by Han Suyin, published by Plaza & Janés in 1987, in paperback (333 pages, in Spanish).
In the eighteenth century, twins Colin and Bea travel from Switzerland to China with a hereditary gift that lets them hear each other's thoughts. Colin, a maker of precision automata, repairs the emperor's clocks; in Ayuthia, the ancient capital of Siam, they both discover a splendor of golden spires and face love, jealousy and betrayal.
Translation of the original English «The Enchantress», published in the Plaza & Janés literary collection.
For readers of historical fiction set in the Far East with plots of love and adventure.
Rosalie Matilda Kuanghu Chou was a Chinese-born Eurasian physician and author better known by her pen name Han Suyin. She wrote in English and French on modern China, set her novels in East and Southeast Asia, and published autobiographical memoirs which covered the span of modern China. These writings gained her a reputation as an ardent and articulate supporter of the Chinese Communist Revolution. She lived in Lausanne, Switzerland, for many years until her death.
