Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress cover

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Author: Sijie, Dai

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level 7.3
Points 8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 45481
Points per Word 0.000176
Page Count 197
Points per Page 0.040609

Description

During China's Cultural Revolution, two boys are exiled to a remote mountain village for re-education There they flirt with a seamstress and secretly devour banned Western classics in Chinese translation. The story contains sexual situations.