Mr Muo's Travelling Couch

Author: Dai Sijie
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Book Format: Paperback

Dai Sijie's bestselling and much loved first novel, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, was a delightful fable. His second is a Chinese Don Quixote following the peripatetic misadventures of Mr Muo, China's first psychoanalyst.It's been over ten years since Muo left China. He's been happily studying Freud in France since then. But when he hears that his first love has been thrown into a Chinese jail he rushes home to rescue her. Muo tries to bribe Judge Di but, sick of cash and cars, the judge demands that he find him a virgin to deflower instead. And so Muo embarks on a hilarious quest...Witty, surreal, moving, wonderfully picaresque, it is packed full of stories, anecdote, incident and mishap, all resulting in a highly enjoyable satire of one innocent man's attempt to negotiate the mind-boggling maze of modern China.Winner of the Prix Femina.

About Dai Sijie
Born in China in 1954, Dai Sijie is a film maker and novelist, who left China in 1984 for France where he now lives and works. He is the author of Once on a Moonless Night and the international bestseller, Balzac and the Chinese Seamstress (shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction prize), which he made into a film.

(BK-9780099470182)

SKU BK-9780099470182
Barcode # 9780099470182
Brand Vintage
Artist / Author Dai Sijie
Shipping Weight 0.1800kg
Shipping Width 0.129m
Shipping Height 0.017m
Shipping Length 0.198m
Assembled Length 19.800m
Assembled Height 1.700m
Assembled Width 12.900m
Type Paperback

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