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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by 
Dai Sijie
B.D. Wong
  
Publisher: Books on Tape
Subject(s):  Fiction
Historical Fiction
Language(s):  English
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Available copies:   0 (0 patron(s) on waiting list)
Library copies:   1
File size:   63376 KB
ISBN:   9781415947562
Release date:   Nov 06, 2007


Description

BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS is an enchanting tale that captures the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening. An immediate international bestseller, it tells the story of two hapless city boys exiled to a remote mountain village for re-education during China's infamous Cultural Revolution. There the two friends meet the daughter of the local tailor and discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translation. As they flirt with the seamstress and secretly devour these banned works, the two friends find transit from their grim surroundings to worlds they never imagined.


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Reviews

The New York Times Book Review...
"John Grisham is about as good a storyteller as we've got."
 
Entertainment Weekly...
"The kind of book you read slowly because you don't want it to end ... John Grisham takes command of this literary category just as forcefully as he did legal thrillers with The Firm.... Never let it be said this man doesn't know how to spin a good yarn."
 
Publishers Weekly...
"Characters that no reader will forget. .. prose as clean and strong as any Grisham has yet laid down ... and a drop-dead evocation of a time and place that mark this novel as a classic slice of Americana."
 
Seattle Times...
"Some of the finest dialogue of his career ... Every detail rings clear and true, and nothing is wasted."
 

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