Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Dai Sijie
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 037541309X
- ISBN 13
- 9780375413094
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, September 2001. Hardcover. First American Edition (stated). Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Not from a library. Not a remainder. Not clipped.
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, 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.
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, 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.
Synopsis
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Dai Sijie, and published in 2000 in French and in English in 2001. Its original French title is Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise.
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- Books of the World (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
- Author
- Dai Sijie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 037541309X
- ISBN 13
- 9780375413094
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- September 2001
- Keywords
- fiction, historical, autobiographical, bildungsroman, teenage, teenagers, young adult, China, Cultural Revolution, Tibet
- Bookseller catalogs
- China; Children; Fiction; Asia;
- Size
- 8vo
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