Mr Muo’s Travelling Couch

Author: Dai Sijie

Following his runaway best seller, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie gives us a delightful new tale of East meets West: an adventure both wry and uplifting about a love of dreams and the dream of love, and the power of reading to sustain and inspire the spirit., , After years of studying Freud in Paris, Mr. Muo returns home to introduce the blessings of psych….Read More

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