Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
037541309X
9780375413094
Hardcover, 197pp, Fiction
Alfred a Knopf, 2001
Condition: used, good condition. The spine is slightly slanted and there is a crease between pages 80-81. The pages are tight and clean. The dust jacket is in good condition with light edgewear and light scratching on the covers. The picture is a scan of the actual book you will receive.
Synopsis: At the height of Mao’s infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled to the countryside for “re-education.” The narrator and his best friend, Luo, guilty of being sons of doctors, find themselves in a remote village where, among the peasants of Phoenix mountain, they are made to cart buckets of excrement up and down precipitous winding paths. Their meager distractions include a ciolin, as well as, before long, the beautiful daughter of the local tailor.
