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Book Description
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 Continue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch By Dai Sijie
East meets West in Sijie's new novelThe eighth-century poet Li Po could well have been describing the plot of Dai Sijie's latest novel, Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch, when he wrote, Hard is the journey / So many turnings / And now where am I?Chinese aut ... (read full critics)
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- English Books
- Paperback 304 Pages
- Edition: Reprint
- ISBN-10: 1400077141
- ISBN-13: 9781400077144
- Publisher: Anchor
- Pub date: Jun 06, 2006
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover and Audio CD
- In other languages: other languages
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9781400077144 | Paperback | $13.95 | $11.92 | bn.com |
| $15.00 | $10.75 | The Book Depository | ||
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Jinthebandit 
Chinese whispers
Mr Muo's Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie, translated by Ina Rilke 224pp, Chatto, £12.99 The enigma of the title is easily explained: "Couch" because Mr Muo is China's first fully trained psychoanalyst, and "travelling" because, when we join him at the ... (read full critics)