by Kathryn Harrison · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422695462
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«Los pies de la concubina» is the historical novel by Kathryn Harrison, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (348 pages, in Spanish).
China, early 20th century. Mai, marked by the ritual of bound feet, flees an arranged marriage and is rescued from a Shanghai brothel by Arthur Cohen, an Australian determined to abolish that practice. Between them a relationship of desire and fascination is born; a story of women, travel, revenge, and the search for a home.
Original work in English: «The Binding Chair; or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society» (2000); translation by Encarna Castejón.
For readers of historical fiction and contemporary narrative with female protagonists and a setting in early 20th-century China.
Kathryn Harrison is an American author. She has published seven novels, two memoirs, two collections of personal essays, a travelogue, two biographies, and a book of true crime. She reviews regularly for The New York Times Book Review. Her personal essays have been included in many anthologies and have appeared in Bookforum, Harper's Magazine, More Magazine, The New Yorker, O, The Oprah Magazine, and Vogue, Salon, and Nerve.
