Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Sijie, Dai
Tailor/SeamstressPoliticsChina, People's Republic ofHistorical FictionNY Publ. Library Best Books for the Teen Age
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AR Book Level
7.3
AR Points
8
Word Count
45,481
Interest Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
68632 EN
About this book
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.
