Details
Rent Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
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Narrator: Ina Rilke
Format: Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Random House
Published: Oct 2002
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $27.50
Discs: 4
Synopsis
At the height of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, two young boys are sent to the country for "reeducation" at a remote mountain village, where their lives take an unexpected turn when they meet the beautiful daughter of a local tailor and stumble upon a forbidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translations. A first novel.
Reviews
This book is a gem - it provides a glimpse into a place and time that few Americans have ever experienced, through the eyes of three Chinese youths who experienced in a fascinating, at times humorous at times touching way. The fact that it is narrated by B.D. Wong, who captures the characters voices and the occasional Chinese pronunciations perfectly, is a huge bonus. It was a tad slow for me in spots, but the characters stayed with me long after I finished listening to the book.