Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. (Vintage East) (Vintage East) - Brossura

Sijie, Dai

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ISBN 10: 009949082X ISBN 13: 9780099490821

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2006

Riassunto

In 1971, Mao's campaign against the intellectuals is at its height. Our narrator and his best friend, Luo, distinctly unintellectual but guilty of being the sons of doctors, have been sent to a remote mountain village to be 're-educated'. The kind of education that takes place among the peasants of Phoenix Mountain involves carting buckets of excrement up and down precipitous, foggy paths, but the two seventeen-year-olds have a violin and their sense of humor to keep them going. Further distraction is provided by the attractive daughter of the local tailor, and possessor of a particularly fine pair of feet. Their true re-education starts, however, when they discover a comrade's hidden stash of classics of great nineteenth-century Western literature - Balzac, Dickens, Dumas, Tolstoy and others, in Chinese translation. They need all their ingenuity to get their hands on the forbidden books, but when they do their lives are turned upside down. And not only their lives: after listening to their dangerously seductive retellings of Balzac, the Little Seamstress will never be the same again. 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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 009949082X
• ISBN 13: 9780099490821
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 176