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After years of studying Freud in Paris, Mr. Muo returns home to bring the benefits of psychoanalysis to twenty-first-century China and to somehow free his college sweetheart, now a political prisoner, a quest that leads him to the sadistic local magistrate, Judge Di, who demands a virgin maiden in exchange for clemency. 100,000 first printing.
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'Allusive, intelligent, and very funny; comedy in the service of entertainment.' (Alan Massie Scotsman 2005-06-18)
'memorable [and] often startlingly beautiful' (Stuart Kelly Scotland on Sunday 2005-06-19)
A literary road movie...veers from hilarious to horrific (Daily Mail)
Allusive, intelligent, and very funny; comedy in the service of entertainment (Scotsman)
Some of the best passages are, like this, sensuous and plainly descriptive. There is a fantastic mini-essay on the aphrodisiac qualities of the sea cucumber (Toby Litt Guardian)
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'memorable [and] often startlingly beautiful' (Stuart Kelly Scotland on Sunday 2005-06-19)
A literary road movie...veers from hilarious to horrific (Daily Mail)
Allusive, intelligent, and very funny; comedy in the service of entertainment (Scotsman)
Some of the best passages are, like this, sensuous and plainly descriptive. There is a fantastic mini-essay on the aphrodisiac qualities of the sea cucumber (Toby Litt Guardian)
Wonderful second novel from the author of the best-selling Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress.
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- PublisherAlfred a Knopf Inc
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1400042593
- ISBN 13 9781400042593
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