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Download or read book The Binding Chair written by Kathryn Harrison and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2001-06-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In poised and elegant prose, Kathryn Harrison weaves 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.
Download or read book The Binding Chair written by Kathryn Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In poised and elegant prose, Kathryn Harrison weaves 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.
Download or read book The Binding Chair written by Kathryn Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Binding Chair written by Kathryn Harrison and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Chinese woman with brutally bound feet becomes a unexpected celebrity who connects with a variety of women who've all suffered a disfigurement, mental or physical, that echoes her own.
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