Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - 8 Angebote vergleichen

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Infinity Books Japan [3527684], Tokyo, TKY, Japan.
The Cultural Revolution of Chairman Mao Zedong altered Chinese history in t he 1960s and '70s, forcibly sending hundreds of thousands of Chinese intell ectuals to peasant villages for "re-education." This moving, often wrenchin g short novel by a writer who was himself re-educated in the '70s tells how two young men weather years of banishment, emphasizing the power of litera ture to free the mind. Sijie's unnamed 17-year-old protagonist and his best friend, Luo, are bourgeois doctors' sons, and so condemned to serve four y ears in a remote mountain village, carrying pails of excrement daily up a h Ill. Only their ingenuity helps them to survive. The two friends are good a t storytelling, and the village headman commands them to put on "oral cinem a shows" for the villagers, reciting the plots and dialogue of movies. When another city boy leaves the mountains, the friends steal a suitcase full o f forbidden books he has been hiding, knowing he will be afraid to call the authorities. Enchanted by the prose of a host of European writers, they da re to tell the story of The Count of Monte Cristo to the village tailor and to read Balzac to his shy and beautiful young daughter. Luo, who adores th e Little Seamstress, dreams of transforming her from a simple country girl into a sophisticated lover with his foreign tales. He succeeds beyond his e xpectations, but the result is not what he might have hoped for, and leads to an unexpected, droll and poignant conclusion. The warmth and humor of Si jie's prose and the clarity of Rilke's translation distinguish this slim fi rst novel, a wonderfully human tale.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, betterworldbooks_.
Here is one of those rare novels, so captivatingly original, so absurdly funny, surprising and moving, that it crosses all boundaries. In 1971 Mao's campaign against the intellectuals is at its height. Our narrator and his best friend, Luo, distinctly unintellectual but guilty of being the sons of doctors, have been sent to a remote mountain village to be 'reeducated'. The kind of education that takes place among the peasants of Phoenix Mountain involves carting buckets of excrement up and down precipitous, foggy paths, but the two seventeen-year-olds have a violin and their sense of humour to keep them going. Further distraction is provided by the attractive daughter of the local tailor, possessor of a particularly fine pair of feet. Their true re-education starts, however, when they discover a comrade's hidden stash of classics of great nineteenth-century Western literature - Balzac, Dickens, Dumas, Tolstoy and others, in Chinese translation. They need all their ingenuity to get their hands on the forbidden books, but when they do their lives are turned upside down. And not only their lives: after listening to their dangerously seductive retellings of Balzac, the Little Seamstress will never be the same again. Without betraying the truth of what happened, Dai Sijie transforms the bleak events of China's Cultural Revolution into an enchanting and unexpected story about the resilience of the human spirit and the magical power of great storytelling. Paperback, Ausgabe: Film Tie-in ed, Label: Vintage, Vintage, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2003-04-17, Studio: Vintage, Verkaufsrang: 2923910.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Literary Cat Books and Prints, Wales, Tywyn, Gwynedd, [RE:3].
Slight shelfwear. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. ISBN: 0099452243. ISBN/EAN: 9780099452249. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 033740. Apr 17, 2003, Film Tie-in ed.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Better World Books [51315977], Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Green Earth Books [3961782], Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Light shelving wear with minimal damage to cover and bindings. Pages show minor use.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, AwesomeBooksUK, OXON, PO BOX 318, [RE:4].
Paperback, Film Tie-in ed.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Goldstone Books, Carms, Ammanford, [RE:3].
Paperback, Film Tie-in ed.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Chiron Media [55661942], Wallingford, United Kingdom.