by Dai Sijie · Piper Verlag GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783492238694
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«Balzac und die kleine chinesische Schneiderin» is the novel by Dai Sijie, published by Piper Verlag GmbH in paperback (208 pages, in German).
Two Chinese students are sent to a remote mountain village for their «cultural re-education»; there they find a leather suitcase with forbidden masterpieces of Western literature. Those books become their escape from reality and their way to win over the Little Seamstress. A story about the power of reading in Mao's China.
Novel translated from French by Gio Waeckerlin Induni, originally published in 2000 as «Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse chinoise».
A read for those interested in historical fiction and stories about the power of books, set in Mao's China.
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.
