The Binding Chair by Kathryn Harrison

ISBN: 9781841152684 / 1841152684 - The Binding Chair by Kathryn Harrison. Published by Fourth Estate, 2000. Softcover. Used, Very Good condition. 336 pp.

May escapes an arranged marriage in rural nineteenth-century China for life in a Shanghai brothel. By turns shocking, exquisite, and hilarious.

In poised and elegant prose, Kathryn Harrison weaves in The Binding Chair a stunning story of women, travel, and flight - of love, revenge, and fear - of the search for home and the need to escape it.

Set in alluring Shanghai at the turn of the century, The Binding Chair intertwines the destinies of a Chinese woman determined to forget her past and a Western girl focused on the promises of the future.

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