by Dai Sijie - £12.99 Vintage (2006)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9780099470182 | ISBN 10: 0099470187
Dai Sijie's bestselling first novel, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress was a delightful fable. His second is a Chinese Don Quixote, following the 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, moving and surreal, Mr Muo's Travelling Couch is a highly enjoyable satire of one innocent man's attempt to negociate the mind-boggling maze of modern China.
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