Balzac and China

This month’s book­club book was “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seam­stress: A Novel” by Dai Sijie, which has received rave reviews from all over. I found it a nice, easy read that touched on some extremely dif­fi­cult sub­jects (the Cul­tural Revolu­tion, the dif­fi­culties of peas­ant life, life’s inequit­ies, abor­tion, and failed dreams) extremely lightly. The […]