The Three-Inch Golden Lotus: A Novel on Foot Binding (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780824816063)

This beguiling story is woven around the life of Fragrant Lotus, who has her feet bound in the supreme Golden Lotus style when she is six years old. Events in Fragrants Lotus' life twist and unfold in a series of witty and often wicked ironies, obliterating easy distinctions between kindness and cruelty, history and fable, forgery and authentic work. The novel's waggish narrator exists in the tension between judgement and description, wryly deflating his reader's certainties along the way. Written in 1985, The Three-Inch Golden Lotus is a deeply affecting, thoroughly enjoyable literary revelation.

Author: Feng Jicai
ISBN-10: 0824816064
ISBN-13: 9780824816063
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/1994
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.57w x 0.65d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/15/1994 pg. 1326
Library Journal 03/15/1994 pg. 100
Publishers Weekly 01/31/1994 pg. 81
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/1994 pg. 6