The Grasshopper Shoe

by Leach-Paholski, Carolyn (2005), 200pp., ISBN 1 74076 140 5.
AUD$27.23 (Including GST: AUD$29.95) (softcover)

Carolyn Leach-Paholski takes readers to a marvel of little know places. Her language glitters. Each page is unexpected.
Eric Rolls

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. The grasshopper shoe, depicted within her prized porcelain bowl, acts as a powerful metaphor for life and the motives behind actions.

Carolyn Leach-Paholski is an award winning poet and author whose work has been published extensively in Australia. She received the Somerset Poetry Prize in 2002 and in 2004 she was awarded the Watermark Fellowship for writing on nature and place.