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Books by Dai Sijie

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
1971 and Mao's Cultural Revolution. Two teenage city youths, sons of intellectuals, are sent to a remote mountain village to be 're-educated'. Thanks to their talent for storytelling they are sent several days' journey into town to watch films and re-enact them for the village. On the way, two priceless finds help relieve their misery - Little Seamstress, the tailor's pretty daughter, and a cache of forbidden books. Thus they discover Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky...and love.
(Jenny Freeman - bwl 18 April 2003)