by Dai Sijie · Quinteto, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496333635
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«Balzac y la joven costurera china» is the novel by Dai Sijie, published by Quinteto, S.L. in paperback (272 pages, in Spanish).
Two city boys are sent to a mountain village to be reeducated during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. There they find a suitcase of forbidden Western novels, including works by Balzac, and read them in secret with the tailor's daughter. It is a story about friendship, first love, freedom, and literature.
The original title of the work is «Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse chinoise»; this Spanish edition, translated by Manuel Serrat Crespo, appeared in 2005.
For book clubs and readers of historical fiction, especially those interested in stories about books and in China during the Cultural Revolution.
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.
