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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46884190 Title: Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress Author: Sijie Dai; Ina Rilke Publisher: New York : Knopf, 2001. ISBN/ISSN: 037541309X 9780375413094 9780385722209 0385722206 OCLC:46884190

  
  

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Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress

Author:	Sijie Dai; Ina Rilke
Publisher:	New York : Knopf, 2001.
Edition/Format:	Print book : Fiction : English : 1st American edView all editions and formats
Summary:	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.  Read more...
Subjects	Prohibited books -- Fiction. Man-woman relationships -- Fiction. China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Fiction. View all subjects
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