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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

(2001)
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Two boys, both sons of doctors, are sent to the top of a mountain for "re-education" in Mao's China. An education that involves carting buckets of excrement up and down precipitous paths. They discover instead the discreet charm of bourgeois literature and the local tailor's attractive daughter.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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