Karin T. (kato) reviewed on 12/29/2009 + 21 more book reviews

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I loved this little charming page-turner of a book! I finished it in a day. I simply couldn't put it down. It is a story about the exile of a couple of young intellectual city boys for re-education into a remote mountain area during China's Cultural Revolution. There they meet the beautiful daughter of a tailor and secretly educate her from a stash of banned books. The descriptions are so lush, I was transported to the mountains of China during Mao's revolution. Dai Sijie's storytelling artfully captured the pace of mountain living, but masterfully made me tongue-wagging eager to find out what happened next. A true book lovers book, in my opinion- I highly recommend it.

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