Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress | Dai Sijie

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/251768 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Author: Dai Sijie Narrator: B. D. Wong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 29, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.91 of Total 47 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: An enchanting literary debut—already an international best-seller. At the height of Mao’s infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled to the countryside for “re-education.” The narrator and his best friend, Luo, guilty of being the sons of doctors, find themselves in a remote village where, among the peasants of Phoenix mountain, they are made to cart buckets of excrement up and down precipitous winding paths. Their meager distractions include a violin—as well as, before long, the beautiful daughter of the local tailor. But it is when the two discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translation that their re-education takes its most surprising turn. While ingeniously concealing their forbidden treasure, the boys find transit to worlds they had thought lost forever. And after listening to their dangerously seductive retellings of Balzac, even the Little Seamstress will be forever transformed. From within the hopelessness and terror of one of the darkest passages in human history, Dai Sijie has fashioned a beguiling and unexpected story about the resilience of the human spirit, the wonder of romantic awakening and the magical power of storytelling.