by Dai Sijie · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070757626
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«Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise» is the novel by Dai Sijie, published by Gallimard in paperback (190 pages, in French).
During the Cultural Revolution, two teenagers sent to a re-education camp find a suitcase of banned Western novels, including several by Balzac. These readings transform their worldview and that of the young village seamstress, in a story about the power of literature.
Originally published in 2000, it won the Prix Relay du Roman d'Évasion that same year and was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2002.
Recommended for book clubs and for readers of historical fiction and fiction about books and cultural resistance.
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.
