Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress
Dai Sijie
Fiction
197 pages
copyright: 2001
isbn: 0-375-41309-x
An enchanting literary debut—already an international best-seller.
At the height of Mao’s infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among
hundreds of thousands exiled to the countryside for “re-education.” The
narrator and his best friend, Luo, guilty of being the sons of doctors, find
themselves in a remote village where, among the peasants of Phoenix mountain,
they are made to cart buckets of excrement up and down precipitous winding
paths. Their meager distractions include a violin—as well as, before long, the
beautiful daughter of the local tailor.
But it is when the two discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese
translation that their re-education takes its most surprising turn. While
ingeniously concealing their forbidden treasure, the boys find transit to
worlds they had thought lost forever. And after listening to their dangerously
seductive retellings of Balzac, even the Little Seamstress will be forever
transformed.
>From within the hopelessness and terror of one of the darkest passages in
>human history, Dai Sijie has fashioned a beguiling and unexpected story about
>the resilience of the human spirit, the wonder of romantic awakening and the
>magical power of storytelling.
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