Once on a Moonless Night by Dai Sijie [in San Francisco Chronicle]
17 Aug, by in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Repost, Translation
If you see a book cover with the name Dai Sijie on it, read the book. Dai's delightful 2001 debut, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, about two young boys who discover a love for literature while sequestered in a re-education camp during Mao's Cultural Revolution,...
The long-awaited follow-up to the provocative 
Delightful debut about two teenage boys sent to be “re-educated” during Mao’s Cultural Revolution and their love for a local village girl and banned western literature.
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