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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Recommended by Zayn (thanks!) which made me search out Balzac and only now 18 months after have I read the book. Which only took a day. Although small it's packed with story about love, relationships and awakenings. Set in China's 1970s with two sons of city intellectuals being sent out into the countryside to live as peasants as part of their re-education which may be forever. Their awakening is less about the Maoist kind rather in reading classic novels that are illegal. Mixed into this is their friendship with the Little Seamstress and her awakening in discovering the classics through the two boys which leads to another realisation and action which... well I won't put a spoiler in here suffice to say that the novel is a great read and possibly a classic in itself.
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