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Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress / Dai Sijie ; translated from the French by Ina Rilke.
LIBRA - Special PQ2664.A437 B3513 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dai, Sijie, 1954-
- Standardized Title:
- Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Prohibited books--Fiction.
- Prohibited books.
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- History.
- China.
- China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Political fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 184 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Anchor Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Anchor Books, 2002.
- Summary:
- During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, two boys are sent to the country for reeducation, where their lives take an unexpected turn when they meet the beautiful daughter of a local tailor and stumble upon a forbidden stash of Western literature.
- ISBN:
- 0385722206
- 9780385722209
- OCLC:
- 50946830
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