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Book Review of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
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This is a beautiful, readable book. The 19-year-old narrator sees and lives through horrors of the Cultural Revolution, but the tone is almost insoucient--believably teenage. And, of course, it always feels good to read literature that celebrates literature.