by Darin Strauss · Circulo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788429791365
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«Chang y Eng» is Darin Strauss's novel about the Siamese twins, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (410 pages, in Spanish).
A fictionalized recreation of the lives of Chang and Eng Bunker, Siamese twins born in Siam in 1811 who became famous as a circus attraction and settled in the southern United States before the Civil War. Strauss combines fact and fiction to restore their human dimension beyond the freak show.
Edition in Spanish; the original work, published in English as 'Chang and Eng', won the ALA Alex Award and was a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award in 2001.
For readers of historical fiction and book clubs seeking novels based on real characters and nineteenth-century biographies.
Darin Strauss is an American writer whose work has earned a Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
