Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0385722206
ISBN 13
9780385722209
Category
830-899 Other Literature
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Publication Year
2002
Publisher
Pages
184
Subject
Prohibited books -- Fiction. Man-woman relationships -- Fiction. China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Fiction.
Abstract
At the height of Mao's infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled to the countryside for "re-education." The narrator and his best friend, Luo, guilty of being the sons of doctors, find themselves in a remote village where, among the peasants of Phoenix mountain, they are made to cart buckets of excrement up and down precipitous winding paths. Their meager distractions include a violin--as well as, before long, the beautiful daughter of the local tailor. But it is when the two discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translation that their re-education takes its most surprising turn. While ingeniously concealing their forbidden treasure, the boys find transit to worlds they had thought lost forever. And after listening to their dangerously seductive retellings of Balzac, even the Little Seamstress will be forever transformed.
Biblio Notes
Genre/Form: Political fiction
Fiction
History
Historical fiction
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Sijie Dai; Ina Rilke
ISBN: 037541309X 9780375413094 9780385722209 0385722206
OCLC Number: 46884190
Description: 197 pages ; 20 cm
Other Titles: Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise.
Responsibility: Dai Sijie ; translated from the French by Ina Rilke.
Number of Copies
1
