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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

by Dai Sijie

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Charming story of two young men who are sent to a remote village for reeducation during Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution.  There, they discover the magic of reading and romance, as a way to keep their souls alive. ( )
  caroren | Feb 6, 2010 |
The type of book you keep thinking about and thinking about after you close the book. Would make a good book for group discussion. Recommended. ( )
  debnance | Jan 29, 2010 |
gorgeous ( )
  sibyx | Jan 10, 2010 |
This was an easy read, but I'm not sure what to make of it. I found its style deliberately simple, with a strong opinion about its protagonists' situation, yet at the very end, like a good O'Henry story, everything twisted around. ( )
  ffortsa | Dec 25, 2009 |
This was a great book that was a quick read, which I tried to stretch out, it was so interesting. I didn't know about this Chinese history, ie the re-education of the "intellectuals" and it made me appreciate the freeness of access to literature we have here in the western world.

I think that this story has universal appeal and recommend it highly. ( )
  upatree | Dec 13, 2009 |
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The village headman, a man of about fifty, sat cross-legged in the centre of the room, close to the coals burning in a hearth that was hollowed out of the floor; he was inspecting my violin.
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is an enchanting tale that captures the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening. An immediate international bestseller, it tells the story of two hapless city boys exiled to a remote mountain village for re-education during China’s infamous Cultural Revolution. There the two friends meet the daughter of the local tailor and discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translation. As they flirt with the seamstress and secretly devour these banned works, the two friends find transit from their grim surroundings to worlds they never imagined.

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