by Kathryn Harrison · Harpercollins MD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781841152691
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«The Binding Chair» is Kathryn Harrison's historical novel in hardback, with 338 pages, in English.
In early twentieth-century Shanghai, May flees an arranged marriage in rural China and ends up in a brothel, where she meets Arthur, an Australian linked to the Foot Emancipation Society. Her story intertwines with Alice's in a novel about women, travel, redemption, and the clash of cultures.
The full title is The Binding Chair; or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society. It is Kathryn Harrison's fourth novel; this edition was published in 2001.
For readers of historical and contemporary fiction interested in early twentieth-century China, female characters, and cross-cultural encounters.
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.
