Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch
Original Title: Le Complexe de Di
Author: Dai Sijie
Translator: Kyong-shik Yong
Publisher: Hyundai Munhak
392 pages
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About This Book
Having enchanted readers on two continents with Balzac and the Little
Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie now produces a rapturous and uproarious
collision of East and West, a novel about the dream of love and the love
of dreams. Fresh from 11 years in Paris studying Freud, bookish Mr. Muo
returns to China to spread the gospel of psychoanalysis. His secret
purpose is to free his college sweetheart from prison. To do so he has
to get on the good side of the bloodthirsty Judge Di, and to accomplish
that he must provide the judge with a virgin maiden.
This may prove difficult in a China that has embraced western sexual
mores along with capitalism, especially since Muo, while indisputably a
romantic, is no ladies man. Tender, laugh-out-loud funny, and
unexpectedly wise, Mr. Muos Travelling Couch introduces a hero as
endearingly inept as Inspector Clouseau and as valiant as Don Quixote.
"Fans of Dai Sijie's Balzac will adore this enchanting adventure
story." --Chicago Tribune
Always entertaining. . . . A bawdy, comic romp [that] takes our hero
into all kinds of wild scrapes and adventures. --San Francisco
Chronicle
"Poignant. . . . Hilarious. . . . A fascinating book." --San Jose
Mercury News
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