Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress
- author
- Dai Sijie
- Narrator
- Andrew Burt
- Length
- 5 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher
- Calibre Audio
- Catalogue #
- 6333
- Categories
- General FictionGCSE
- Ratings
- 0 star rating
In the midst of Mao's cultural revolution, two boys are sent to 're-education' camps and have to rely on each other and the daughter of a local tailor to keep going. Their lives are changed when they find a suitcase packed with Western novels, and after listening to the stories of Balzac so is the little seamstress.