Dai, Sijie, 1954-

Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress / Dai Sijie ; translated by Ina Rilke. - London : Vintage, 2002. - 172 p. ; 20 cm.

This translation originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2001.

Without betraying the truth of what happened, Dai Sijie transforms the bleak events of China's Cultural Revolution into an enchanting and unexpected story about the resilience of the human spirit and the magical power of great storytelling.


Translated from the French.

9780099286431 (pbk.) : �6.99


China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976--Fiction.


Fiction in translation.

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