Set in southern China in the mid 1860s, this is the story of a French explorer-scientist and a young Chinese woman who meet during a cholera outbreak and fall in love. Lucien Battard sets out for the Far East on a doomed mission to disprove Darwin's theory of evolution by collecting enough exotica to prove the infinite mind of God. The story unfolds against a backdrop of cultural differences - social, historical and religious.
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'The Grasshopper Shoe is set in China in the mid nineteenth century, at An Le, an area of China frequently visited by Portuguese, French and English traders. The novel follows the life of Xi Hsiao Yen, the Little Swallow, from just before the point of her feet-first birth. ' (Introduction)
'The Grasshopper Shoe is set in China in the mid nineteenth century, at An Le, an area of China frequently visited by Portuguese, French and English traders. The novel follows the life of Xi Hsiao Yen, the Little Swallow, from just before the point of her feet-first birth. ' (Introduction)
