by Dai Sijie · Salamandra Bolsillo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498387469
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Two Chinese teenagers are sent to a remote village in the Phoenix Mountains, near Tibet, for re-education under Mao Zedong's regime. Amidst difficult living conditions and little hope of returning home, they discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western literature. Through Balzac, Dumas, and others, they find a world of poetry and passion, and learn that books can be a powerful tool to conquer the young seamstress from the neighboring village. This novel is a tribute to the power of the written word and the desire for freedom.
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.
