Two sons of doctors have been sent to the countryside to be re-educated in this novel of Mao's China.
This is a beautiful telling of being sent to the mountains to unlearn what was seen as Western ideas. Luo and Ma play tricks on the villagers, do manual labor, live in a barn, and meet a seamstress who distracts them from the situation they find themselves in.
As a bonus, the audiobook is read by D.B. Wong.
Sijie, Dai. (2001). Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. New York: Knopf.
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