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,...