by Dai Sijie · Coronet Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070416806
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«Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse chinoise» is the novel by Dai Sijie about two young men during the Cultural Revolution, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback (228 pages, in French).
Two teenagers from intellectual families are sent to a re-education camp in rural China during the Cultural Revolution. When they find a suitcase of forbidden Western novels, including several by Balzac, reading becomes an escape and transforms their lives, in a story about friendship, first love and the power of books against oppression.
Novel in French, 228 pages. Originally published in 2000 and reissued in 2001 in the Folio collection by Editions Gallimard.
For readers of contemporary and historical fiction interested in 20th-century China and stories about the 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.
