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 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. Muo’s Travelling Couch introduces a hero as endearingly inept as Inspector Clouseau and as valiant as Don Quixote.

Hi, even though you left OPPEM's birthday group, I still wanted to send you this book in order to cheer you up during this hard times!

I wish you a happy birthday and that your situation gets better soon!

A man with a mission,

gets on a bicycle with a vengence
and really pedals hard.

I've actually already read this one, so I'll add the review for the other copy! :)

Hmmmmm...... This was an odd one.

It was something I'd classify as 'Ok'. Not great, sometimes fun, sometimes dull. The story reminds me a lot of the 3 Stooges. Where everything goes wrong for no real reason and a guy just keeps going forward like a video game without a personality to get in the way of. A human version of the Energizer bunny.

Basically, there were a handful of interesting parts, like the bicycle business he started to drum up some funds for himself. But a lot of the rest of it just dragged on and on.

This lucky little book has become part of Surprise BookBox! :D

Hopefully it will manage to find itself a new reader! ;)

This book doesn’t really interest me, so I’m going to pass it on.

I hope someone will enjoy this book :)

Taking from the Surprise Paperback Bookbox and adding to Mt. TBR.

A creepy little man in search of a virgin tumbles from one mess into another.
Surely the original French version wasn't this boring, maybe much was lost in translation.
Glad to be done with it.

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a New Year full of good reads!

P.S. I didn't like this book, but others have really enjoyed it, so hopefully, you will also.

Christmas came early this year, thanks! And to think that this little book started its travels in China. Wow! I read Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress through a ring years ago, and looking forward to reading another of his. Thanks, book_drunkard! Happy Christmas to you and yours.