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| Dai, Sijie |  |
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
During Mao Tse-Tung's "Cultural Revolution" intellectuals, doctors, lawyers, and their children were sent to remote and primitive areas of China to be "re-educated." This meant performing menial tasks such as breaking rocks and carrying buckets of dung. The narrator of this book and his friend Luo are both children of doctors who are undergoing their "re-education." Their sole distraction is the beautiful daughter of the local tailor. They discover a hidden cache of Western literature in Chinese translation, and they are transported to worlds they thought they would never see again.
197 p. 2001
Adult Fiction Book
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