Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress, Dai Sijie ; translated from the French by Ina Rilke
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Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress, Dai Sijie ; translated from the French by Ina Rilke
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eng
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fiction
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Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress
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56307151047870
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Dai Sijie ; translated from the French by Ina Rilke
Summary
At the height of Mao's Cultural Revolution, two teenage boys are among thousands exiled to the countryside for "re-education." The narrator and his best friend find themselves in a remote village where their only distractions are a violin and the beautiful daughter of the local tailor. But it is when they discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translation that their re-education takes its most surprising turn
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