Chang and Eng - Paperback
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Chang and Eng - Paperback
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by Darin Strauss (Author)
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.Author Biography
Darin Strauss is the award-winning author of the national and international bestseller Chang and Eng, as well as its screenplay for Disney Films and director Julie Taymor. His work has been translated into 14 languages, and he teaches at New York University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Number of Pages: 336
Dimensions: 0.7 x 8 x 5.31 IN
Publication Date: May 01, 2001
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Chang and Eng: A Novel
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 6.8
Point Value: 19
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