by Dai Sijie · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780385722209
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«Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress» is Dai Sijie's novel in paperback (192 pp., in English), published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
In Cultural Revolution China, two urban youths sent to a mountain village for re-education find a cache of Western novels translated into Chinese. With the tailor's daughter, the little seamstress, they discover in Balzac and other forbidden authors a means of escape and a sentimental awakening.
Novel originally published in French as «Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse chinoise»; this English edition is translated by Ina Rilke.
A suitable read for book clubs and for those interested in historical fiction set in 20th-century China.
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.
