by Dai Sijie · SALAMANDRA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478886500
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«Balzac y la joven costurera china» is the novel by Dai Sijie, published by Salamandra in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
During the Cultural Revolution, two Chinese teenagers are sent to a remote village in the Phoenix of the Sky mountains, near Tibet, to be «reeducated» by Mao Zedong's regime. There they find a hidden suitcase with works by Balzac, Dumas, Stendhal and Romain Roland, and use reading as a refuge and a way to win over the Little Seamstress.
It belongs to the Salamandra Narrativa collection. The Spanish edition was published in 2001; the original French title is Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse chinoise.
For readers of contemporary fiction and book clubs interested in Mao's China and the transformative power of books.
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.
