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Narrated in a haunting voice that mulls over painful truths of the past, this is an unflinching, erotic tale of forbidden love in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. Fusang is a Chinese girl who is shanghaied from her village and brought to San Francisco, where she enters a seedy underworld.
| ISBN | 0571207669 | | Pages | 288 | | ISBN13 | 9780571207664
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 210 | | Publisher | Faber and Faber | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Faber and Faber | | Previous ISBN | 9780571207664 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 16 Sep 2002 | | Width (mm) | 126 | | DEWEY | 895.1352 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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'The lush, decadent darkness which pervades Geling Yan's novel about a Chinese prostitute in turn-of-the-century San Francisco makes this an intensely cinematic book.' Big Issue; 'Her great storytelling lets you enjoy silk and embroidery, tea and angling, earrings, everlasting love and derringdo; it lets you, with the luscious vicarious masochism of a true fiction lover, relish the horrors of giving your body to hideous strangers or, as a coolie railroad worker, being beaten to a pulp by striking Caucasian workers.' Observer; 'A challenging work of literature... Skilfully subverts the basic tenet of Orientalism - that the Orient can be read, known, possessed.' Times Literary Supplement  Be the first to write a customer review
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