by Kathryn Harrison · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433969576
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«Los pies de la concubina» is the novel by Kathryn Harrison, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardcover (380 pages, in Spanish).
In early 20th-century China, Mai undergoes the foot-binding ritual, banned in 1911. She flees an arranged marriage and works in a Shanghai brothel until rescued by Arthur Cohen, an Australian philanthropist opposed to the practice. Mai lives in Europe and grows fond of her niece Alice, but the family fears that woman.
It is volume 497 of the Panorama de narrativas collection, translated by Encarna Castejón, and was published in 2002.
Readers of historical and contemporary fiction seeking a female protagonist and a setting between China and Europe.
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.
