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[...]
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[...]
1971: Mao's cultural Revolution is at its peak. Two sons of doctors, sent to 're-education' camps, forced to carry buckets of excrement up and down mountain paths, have only their sense of humour to keep them going. Although the attractive daughter of the local tailor also helps to distract them fro[...]
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[...]