Since the publication of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (published in 38 countries), film maker and novelist Dai Sijie has become internationally famous. His film of the book was chosen to open the Cannes Film Festival in 2002.Mr Muo's Travelling Couch has already sold over 100,000 copies in its first French edition and will now be published throughout the world. Dai Sijie lives in Paris and writes in French.
"""A literary road movie...veers from hilarious to horrific"" Daily Mail ""Allusive, intelligent, and very funny; comedy in the service of entertainment"" Scotsman ""Memorable and often startlingly beautiful"" Scotland on Sunday ""Unusually for a comic novel, it grips like a thriller and has some page-turningly tense moments... a significant book, as well as an eccentric one"" Daily Telegraph ""A reading experience that evokes contemporary China with absurdist exactitude"" Financial Times"