num_pages: 287
description: 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.
language: English
title: Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch: A Novel
titlecomplete: Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch: A Novel
genres: Asia, Unfinished, Historical Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Asian Literature, Literature, China, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 1593
places: China
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Prix Femina, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
category: Longlist
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf