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.
- ISBN10 0824815742
- ISBN13 9780824815745
- Publish Date 1 March 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 June 2021
- Imprint University of Hawaii Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 239
- Language English