TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dai,Sijie
AU  - Rilke,Ina
TI  - Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress
SN  - 9780385722209
AV  - PQ2664.A437 B3513 2002
U1  - 843 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - Anchor Books
KW  - Chinese fiction
KW  - 21st Century
KW  - Coming of Age
KW  - Cultural Revolution
KW  - re-education
KW  - China
KW  - Banned books
KW  - Reading
KW  - HF
KW  - LF
N2  - 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
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