A review by lucyb
Kai Lung's Golden Hours by Ernest Bramah

4.0

I found this book absolutely delightful. I was nervous about Orientalism, but didn't find, in the event, that Bramah exoticized his setting conspicuously, and insofar as Chinese culture was invoked or mentioned, it was not treated as primitive or comic. Although the diction is modeled on translations of Chinese folktales, the rollicking romance is positively Wodehousian, and the mores and social debates satirized are very clearly those of interwar Britain, where Bramah was writing. The result I found irresistibly charming.