Mr. Muo's travelling couch

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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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dai, Sijie, 1954-
Other Authors: Rilke, Ina
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Edition:First American edition.
Subjects:
Dai, Sijie, > 1954- > Translations into English.
Dai, Sijie, > 1954-
French literature > Translations into English.
French literature.
Translations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Trajectory of the Spirit of Chivalry. A Disciple of Freud
  • The Prenuptial Drama of an Embalmer
  • Games of Mah-Jongg
  • A Miniature Aeroplane
  • Backscratching
  • A Movable Couch
  • Mrs. Thatcher of the Domestic Workers' Market
  • Pt 2. Under Cover of Darkness. The Van in the Night
  • Two a.m.
  • The City of Light
  • Steamed Dumplings
  • Pt. 3. Little Road. Don't Swallow My Tooth!
  • The Head of the Dragon
  • The Flying Sock
  • The Old Observer
  • The Sea Cucumber
  • The Oriole.

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