Dai Sijie

Ein Jünger Freuds Eine mit pinkfarbenem Plastik ummantelte Stahlkette spiegelt sich wie eine glänzende Schlange in der Scheibe eines Abteilfensters, hinter dem die aufblitzenden Lichtsignale zu smaragdblauen und rubinroten Punkten schrumpfen, bis sie vom Dunst einer warmen Julinacht...

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.

T he village headman, a man of about fifty, sat cross-legged in the centre of the room, close to the coals burning in a hearth that was hollowed out of the floor; he was inspecting my viohn. Among the possessions brought to this mountain village by the two "city youths"— which was how they saw...

Borító szélei kopottasak, gerince enyhén megtört. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is an enchanting tale that captures the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening. An immediate international bestseller, it tells the story of two hapless city boys exiled to a remote...