Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

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Cultural revolution claustrophobia Re education camp harshness Stolen books revelation Friendship as survival Coming of age under pressure Hidden culture rebellion

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Release: 2001

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During Mao's Cultural revolution, two boys are sent to re-education camps. There they discover a hidden suitcase packed with the great Western novels of the nineteenth century. Their lives are transformed.

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