by Dai Sijie · SALAMANDRA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788498383348
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«Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress» is the novel by Dai Sijie, published by Salamandra in hardback (192 pages, in Spanish).
Two teenagers are sent to a remote village in the Phoenix of the Sky mountains, near Tibet, to undergo the re-education imposed by Mao Zedong in the late 1960s. Their lives change when they find a clandestine suitcase with works by Balzac, Dumas, Stendhal and Romain Rolland: Western literature opens up a world of poetry and passion for them, and gives them an unexpected tool to win over the young Seamstress, daughter of the tailor from the neighbouring village.
It is Dai Sijie's first novel, which he also adapted to film. The Salamandra Narrativa collection includes this edition from the X Anniversary Collection.
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.
