Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
$23.32
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
5 April 2002
Summary
1971- Mao’s cultural Revolution is at its peak. Two sons of doctors, sent to ’re-education’ camps, forced to carry buckets of excrement up and down mountain paths, have only their sense of humour to keep them going. Although the attractive daughter of the local tailor also helps to distract them from the task at hand.
The boys’ true re-education starts, however, when they discover a hidden suitcase packed with the great Western novels of the nineteenth century. Their lives are transfo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099286431 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099286432 |
| Author: | Dai Sijie |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 5 April 2002 |
| Weight: | 142g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 12mm |
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A completely beguiling novel. always giving the reader a sense of being there. Very engaging
“A completely beguiling novel. always giving the reader a sense of being there. Very engaging” Independent “Wholly delightful, intelligent, funny and unexpected. A remarkable book, offering sheer delight” Scotsman “A simple story, seductively told, it touches and lifts up the beauty of human experience far beyond the mountains of Western China in which the story is set” Times Literary Supplement “Highly original and sweetly charming” The Times “If you read only one novel, choose this one: it’s worth a hundred” Le Figaro
About The Author
Dai Sijie
Born in China in 1954, Dai Sijie is a filmmaker and novelist, who left China in 1984 for France where he now lives and works. He is the author of the international bestseller, Balzac and the Chinese Seamstress (shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction prize) - which he made into a film - Mr Muo’s Travelling Couch (winner of the Prix Femina) and Once on a Moonless Night.
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