Friday, December 14, 2007

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

By Dai Sijie

Translated from the french in 2001 - this little novel is delightful. Two "educated" city boys are sent to the country to live with peasants to be "re-educated." The reader gets a clear, concise and very sympathetic view of "those" times for these Chinese lads, still in their teens, their formative, clever years.

Would make a good book discussion group topic. I really liked it and was disappointed to reach the end.

12/2007


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