by Dai Sijie · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099452249
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«Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress» is the novel by Dai Sijie, published by Vintage in paperback (176 pages, in English).
In 1971, during the Cultural Revolution, two young men sent to a mountain village for re-education discover a hidden stash of nineteenth-century Western classics. The forbidden novels of Balzac, Dickens, Dumas and Tolstoy transform their lives and that of the little seamstress, in a story about the power of storytelling and resilience.
The original French title is «Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse chinoise»; the English translation is by Ina Rilke.
A read for those who enjoy historical fiction and stories about banned books; also cited in book clubs.
Dai Sijie is a Chinese French author and filmmaker living in France since 1984. He writes in French. His first novel, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, written in French, was a best seller and has been translated into more than 25 languages.
