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Dai Sijie is a Chinese-born filmmaker and novelist who has lived and worked in France since 1984. His first novel, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, was an overnight sensation; it spent twenty-three weeks on the New York Times best-seller list.



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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Written by Dai Sijie
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385722209
Our Price: $13.00
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
A Novel
Written by Dai Sijie

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 29, 2002
Price: $13.00

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 mountain village for re-education during China’s infamous Cultural Revolution. There the two... Read more >
Also available as an unabridged audiobook download and a hardcover.
Once on a Moonless Night
Once on a Moonless Night
Written by Dai Sijie, Translated by Adriana Hunter
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307271587
Our Price: $24.95
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Once on a Moonless Night

Written by Dai Sijie
Translated by Adriana Hunter


Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $24.95

From the author of the beloved best seller Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, a haunting tale of love and of the beguiling power of a lost language.

When Puyi, the last emperor, was exiled to Manchuria in the early 1930s, it is said that he carried an eight-hundred-year-old silk scroll inscribed... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch
Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch
Written by Dai Sijie
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400077144
Our Price: $13.95
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Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch

Written by Dai Sijie

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: June 6, 2006
Price: $13.95

Having enchanted readers on two continents with Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie now produces a rapturous and uproarious collision of East and West, a novel about the dream of love and the love of dreams. Fresh from 11 years in Paris studying Freud, bookish Mr. Muo returns to... Read more >
Also available as an unabridged audiobook download.
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Written by Dai Sijie
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375413094
Our Price: $23.00
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Written by Dai Sijie

Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2001
Price: $23.00

An enchanting literary debut—already an international best-seller.

At the height of Mao’s infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled to the countryside for “re-education.” The narrator and his best friend, Luo, guilty of being the sons of doctors, find themselves in a remote village where, among the... Read more >
Also available as an unabridged audiobook download and a trade paperback.
Once on a Moonless Night
Once on a Moonless Night
Written by Dai Sijie, Translated by Adriana Hunter
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307272034
Our Price: $23.95
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Once on a Moonless Night

Written by Dai Sijie
Translated by Adriana Hunter


Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $23.95

From the author of the beloved best seller Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, a haunting tale of love and of the beguiling power of a lost language.

When Puyi, the last emperor, was exiled to Manchuria in the early 1930s, it is said that he carried an eight-hundred-year-old silk scroll inscribed... Read more >
Also available as a hardcover.
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Written by Dai Sijie, Read by B.D. Wong
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780739301029
Our Price: $13.95

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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Written by Dai Sijie
Read by B.D. Wong


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 29, 2002
Price: $13.95

An enchanting literary debut—already an international best-seller.

At the height of Mao’s infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled to the countryside for “re-education.” The narrator and his best friend, Luo, guilty of being the sons of doctors, find themselves in a remote village where, among the... Read more >
Also available as a hardcover and a trade paperback.
Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch
Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch
Written by Dai Sijie, Read by B.D. Wong
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780739320556
Our Price: $17.48

For more information about downloading this audiobook
visit our Audiobook Download FAQ page.

Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch

Written by Dai Sijie
Read by B.D. Wong


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 7, 2005
Price: $17.48

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... Read more >
Also available as a trade paperback.
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