Dai, Sijie,  1954- <br/><br/>
Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress / 
Dai Sijie ; translated from the French by Ina Rilke. 
 - 1st American ed. 
 - new York :  Knopf :  Distributed by Random House,  c2001. 
 - 197 p. ;  20 cm. 
<br/><br/> Originally published in France as Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise by Gallimard, Paris in 2000. 
<br/><br/> At the height of Mao's Cultural Revolution, two boys are exiled to the countryside for "reeducation." But the boys have a violin to distract them - as well as, before long, a beautiful young tailor's daughter and a stash of Western classics. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>037541309X (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2001029865 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Boys--Fiction.--China<br/>Books and reading--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>China--Fiction.