by Dai Sijie · Planeta Deagostini · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467414042
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«Balzac y la joven costurera china» is the novel by Dai Sijie, published by Planeta Deagostini in hardback (189 pages, in Spanish).
In Mao's China, two young men are sent to a remote village in the mountains of the Sky Phoenix to be «reeducated». Their lives change when they find a suitcase with works by Balzac, Dumas and Stendhal: reading them in secret becomes a refuge of freedom and a means to court the Little Seamstress, the tailor's daughter.
The French original, «Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise», was translated by Manuel Serrat Crespo. The edition belongs to the Biblioteca oriental collection.
For reading clubs and readers of historical fiction interested in Mao's China and the transformative power of literature.
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.
