Wonderful second novel from the author of the best-selling Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress.
Born in China in 1954, Dai Sijie is a film maker and novelist, who left China in 1984 for France where he now lives and works. He is the author of Once on a Moonless Night and the international bestseller, Balzac and the Chinese Seamstress (shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction prize), which he made into a film.
"A literary road movie...veers from hilarious to horrific" Daily Mail "Allusive, intelligent, and very funny; comedy in the service of entertainment" Scotsman "Memorable and often startlingly beautiful" Scotland on Sunday "Unusually for a comic novel, it grips like a thriller and has some page-turningly tense moments... a significant book, as well as an eccentric one" Daily Telegraph "A reading experience that evokes contemporary China with absurdist exactitude" Financial Times
After training as a psychoanalyst in the West, Mr. Muo returns home to China to rescue a girlfriend jailed for her political activities and winds up pedaling throughout the country trying to find a perfect bribe for the judge. In the spirit of the incomparable Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
"A literary road movie...veers from hilarious to horrific" Daily Mail "Allusive, intelligent, and very funny; comedy in the service of entertainment" Scotsman "Memorable and often startlingly beautiful" Scotland on Sunday "Unusually for a comic novel, it grips like a thriller and has some page-turningly tense moments... a significant book, as well as an eccentric one" Daily Telegraph "A reading experience that evokes contemporary China with absurdist exactitude" Financial Times
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