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 Chines[...]

Dai Sijie's bestselling and much loved first novel, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, was a delightful fable. His second is a Chinese Don Quixote following the peripatetic misadventures of Mr Muo, China's first psychoanalyst. It's been over ten years since Muo left China. He's been happily s[...]

Terningkast 6. «Et lite mesterverk.»Siri Anniken Tveita, HENNE To kinesiske bygutter i tenårene sendes under kulturrevolusjonen til en landsens avkrok for å omskoleres av fattige bønder. I bagasjen har de blant annet en fiolin, en ukjent gjenstand i deres nye omgivelser og derfor mistenkelig. S[...]