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Résumé :
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The novel, written by Dai Sijie, is about two teenage boys, Luo and Ma (referred to as the narrator throughout the novel), who are sent to be reeducated at the Mountain of the Phoenix of the Sky, because their doctor parents have been declared "enemies of the people" and "reactionaries of the bourgeoise" by the Communist state. There, they are captivated by and fall in love with the daughter of the local tailor, the Little Seamstress. At the same time, they meet Four-Eyes who also is being reeducated. Although he is succeeding in reeducation, he in truth is hiding forbidden western books
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