Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

In 1971, Mao's campaign against the intellectuals is at its height. The narrator of this book and his best friend, Luo, have been sent to a mountain village to be 're-educated'. Their true re-education starts, however, when they discover a comrade's hidden stash of classics of great nineteenth-century Western literature in Chinese translation.

Product details

• Authors: Sijie Dai
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.07.2006
• EAN: 9780099490821
• ISBN: 978-0-09-949082-1
• No. of pages: 171
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 179 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Vintage East; Vintage East
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature