The Hall Of Uselessness
by Simon Leys
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 1590176200
- ISBN 13
- 9781590176207
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Simon Leys is the pen name of Pierre Ryckmans, who was born in Belgium and settled in Australia in 1970. He taught Chinese literature at the Australian National University and was Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney from 1987 to 1993. Leys’s writing has appeared in T he New York Review of Books , Le Monde , Le Figaro Littéraire , and other periodicals. Among his books are Chinese Shadows , The Death of Napoleon (forthcoming from NYRB Classics), Other People’s Thoughts , and The Wreck of the Batavia & Prosper . In 1996 he delivered the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Boyer lectures. His many awards include the Prix Renaudot, the Prix Femina, the Prix Guizot, and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.
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- Ria Christie Collections (GB)
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- Title
- The Hall Of Uselessness
- Author
- Simon Leys
- Format/Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1590176200
- ISBN 13
- 9781590176207
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2013-07-30
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