Balzac and the little chinese seamstress_alisha

The beginning of this book is pretty boring. But once you keep on reading it gets more interesting. Its about two boys who move in the mountains in a small little village. They are moved there for re-education. They soon meet a little chinese seamstress from a near by village. I think one of the boys starts liking her. Both the boys smoke, but the other boy is pretty much addicted to cigs. During rainy days he gathers the remains of past cigs and creats one cig. Im excited to read more of this book, its pretty good so far.