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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"In 1971 Mao's campaign against the intellectuals is at its height. Our narrator and his best friend, Luo, distinctly unintellectual but guilty of being the sons of doctors, have been sent to a remote mountain village to be 'reeducated'. The kind of education that takes place among the peasants of Phoen ...Show more
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
16.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In 1971, Mao's campaign against the intellectuals is at its height. Our narrator and his best friend, Luo, distinctly unintellectual but guilty of being the sons of doctors, have been sent to a remote mountain village to be 're-educated'. The kind of education that takes place among the peasants of Phoe ...Show more
Mr Muo's Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie
45.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Dai Sijie's bestselling and much loved first novel, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, was a delightful fable. His second is a Chinese Don Quixote following the peripatetic misadventures of Mr Muo, China's first psychoanalyst. It's over ten years since Muo has visited his native China. He's been ...Show more
Mr Muo's Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie
26.99 NZD
29.99 (10% off)
Category: General Fiction
Dai Sijie's bestselling and much loved first novel, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, was a delightful fable. His second is a Chinese Don Quixote following the peripatetic misadventures of Mr Muo, China's first psychoanalyst.It's over ten years since Muo has visited his native China. He's been i ...Show more
Once On A Moonless Night by Dai Sijie
28.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Beguiling and ambitious, this new novel by the author of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, is ostensibly a search for an ancient text, and a love story. But beneath that is a haunting tale about language and identity, about the shifting layers of history under the confusing surface of Chinese li ...Show more
Once on a Moonless Night by Dai Sijie (transl. from Chinese Adriana Hunter)
36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Beguiling and ambitious, this new novel by the author of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, is ostensibly a search for an ancient text, and a love story. But beneath that is a haunting tale about language and identity, about the shifting layers of history under the confusing surface of Chinese li ...Show more
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