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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
By Dai Sijie
Anchor, 197 pages, $18
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The author, like the two heroes of this finely wrought gem of a tale, withstood the “re-education” ardor of peasant villagers during China’s Cultural Revolution; here his characters discover, and devour, banned fiction and experience a magical, romantic awakening.