by Kathryn Harrison · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781841156804
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«The Binding Chair» is the historical novel by Kathryn Harrison, published by Fourth Estate in paperback (312 pages, in English).
May flees an arranged marriage in rural China and ends up in a brothel in 1899 Shanghai. There she meets Arthur, a member of the Society for the Emancipation of Feet, fascinated by her bound feet; a story of love, obsession, and cultural clash emerges.
The work was originally published in 2000; the Fourth Estate edition is from 2001.
For readers of historical fiction and literary narrative set in China at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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.
