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Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress / Dai Sijie ; translated by Ina Rilke.
Language: English Original language: French Publication details: London : Vintage, 2002.Description: 172 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 0099286432
- 9780099286431 (paperback)
- Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise. English
- Cultural Revolution (China : 1966-1976)
- Cultural Revolution (China (1966-1976)
- Cultural Revolution (China : 1966-1976)
- 1966 - 1976
- Censorship -- Fiction
- Novel -- French -- 21st century -- English -- Texts
- Censorship
- Prohibited books -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships
- Prohibited books
- China
- China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
- China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Fiction
- China
- Historical fiction
- 843.92 21
- PQ2664.A437 B3513 2002
- I565.45
Holdings: Book
Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 2001.
In 1971 Mao's campaign against the intellectuals is at its height. Our narrator and his best friend, Luo, distinctly unintellectual but guilty of being the sons of doctors, have been sent to a remote mountain village to be 'reeducated'. The kind of education that takes place among the peasants of Phoenix Mountain involves carting buckets of excrement up and down precipitous, foggy paths, but the two seventeen-year-olds have a violin and their sense of humour to keep them going.
Translated from the French.
