Mr Muo's Travelling Couch

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Title East meets West in a psychoanalytical journey

Recommendation: - Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch is a captivating novel that seamlessly blends Eastern and Western cultures through the lens of psychoanalysis. It takes you on a thought-provoking journey as Mr. Muo endeavors to use Freudian techniques in a 21st-century China while also trying to save his college sweetheart, who is a political prisoner. The unique blend of psychology, romance, and political intrigue makes this book a compelling read for those interested in exploring different cultures and the power of the human mind.

  • Prix Femina (2003)
  • Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2006)
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Mr Muo's Travelling Couch

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ISBN: 9780099470182
Authors: Dai Sijie, Ina Rilke
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 2006-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
Related Topics: Literature, Asian Literature
Goodreads rating: 2.8
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Dai Sijie's bestselling and much loved first novel, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, was a delightful fable. His second is a Chinese Don Quixote following the peripatetic 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, surreal, moving, wonderfully picaresque, it is packed full of stories, anecdote, incident and mishap, all resulting in a highly enjoyable satire of one innocent man's attempt to negotiate the mind-boggling maze of modern China.Winner of the Prix Femina.
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Title East meets West in a psychoanalytical journey

Recommendation: - Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch is a captivating novel that seamlessly blends Eastern and Western cultures through the lens of psychoanalysis. It takes you on a thought-provoking journey as Mr. Muo endeavors to use Freudian techniques in a 21st-century China while also trying to save his college sweetheart, who is a political prisoner. The unique blend of psychology, romance, and political intrigue makes this book a compelling read for those interested in exploring different cultures and the power of the human mind.

  • Prix Femina (2003)
  • Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2006)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.