Following his runaway best seller, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie gives us a delightful new tale of East
meets West...After years of studying Freud in Paris, Mr. Muo returns
home to introduce the blessings of psychoanalysis to
twenty-first-century China. But it is his hidden purpose—to liberate
his university sweetheart, now a political prisoner—that leads him
to the sadistic local magistrate, Judge Di. The price of the
Communist bureaucrat’s clemency? A virgin maiden. And so our
middle-aged hero Muo, a Westernized romantic and sexual innocent
himself, sets off on his bicycle in search of a suitable girl.
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'Muo - a little like Nabokov's Pnin and the protagonists of
Naipaul's early novels - is a charmer. But Sijie's latest is a very
rickety construction. Nevertheless, it will very probably be another
reading group sensation.' - Kirkus.
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