Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel
3 journalers for this copy...
This is my second copy of this book.
Journal Entry 2 by tranq1 at Book Box, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, October 9, 2008
Released 15 yrs ago (10/9/2008 UTC) at Book Box, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases
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Sending to msjoanna for the Historical Fiction VBB Round 14 on bookobsessed.com.
Sending to msjoanna for the Historical Fiction VBB Round 14 on bookobsessed.com.
This is with me in NYC. Thanks for sharing.
This book suffers from a problem common to first-time novelists -- the author has no idea how to get off stage and ends what was a lovely book with a ridiculous ending. I quite enjoyed the first three quarters or so of the book, then the story ran off the rails and left me wanting either two hundred more pages or a totally different ending. That said, the tale of the two city boys sent to a rural mountain village for "re-education" by Mao's regime was compellingly drawn. The spare prose and conversational style worked well for the book. The introduction to western literature in the form of forbidden books stolen from another city boy was lovely.
Received in Thursday's mail. I'm thrilled to have it and am looking forward to reading it.