by Sijie Dai · Adelphi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788845918995
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«Balzac e la Piccola Sarta cinese» is the novel by Dai Sijie, published by Adelphi in paperback (184 pages, in Italian).
In Mao's China, two young men sent to a remote village for re-education find a suitcase of forbidden Western novels. Reading Balzac, Dumas and Flaubert transforms their worldview and leads them to fall in love with the Little Seamstress, a young woman who yearns for the freedom the books represent.
Literary fiction originally published in 2000 as «Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse chinoise»; this Italian edition from Adelphi belongs to the Gli Adelphi collection.
For readers interested in historical novels set in China and in stories about the transformative power of literature.
Dai Sijie is a Chinese French author and filmmaker living in France since 1984. He writes in French. His first novel, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, written in French, was a best seller and has been translated into more than 25 languages.
