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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 Psychoanalysis To Twenty-first-century China. But It Is His Hidden Purpose - To Liberate His University Sweetheart, Now A Political Prisoner - That Leads Him To The Sadistic Local Magistrate, Judge Di. The Price Of The Communist Bureaucrat's Clemency? A Virgin Maiden. And So Our Middle-aged Hero Muo, A Westernized Romantic And Sexual Innocent Himself, Sets Off On His Bicycle In Search Of A Suitable Girl. Muo's Quest Will Take Him From A Chengdu Mortuary To A Rural Panda Habitat, From An Insane Asylum To The Haunts Of The Marauding Lolo People. Along The Way, He Will Lose A Tooth, His Virginity,... the Washington Post - Elinor Lipman … We Keep Reading mr. Muo's Travelling Couch For Its Voice And Wit, For The Delicious Turns Of Phrase And Perfect Characterizations Of A Naif With Professional Pretensions Inside A Poor Dreamy And Dream-interpreting Head. Will Mr. Muo Narrow Down His Polyamorous Perversion To The Wholesome Love Of One Woman? He Has Earned Our Fondest Hope For A Happy Ending.