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Once on a Moonless Night (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307456731)
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Dai Sijie
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xA precious scroll inscribed with a lost Buddhist sutra--once owned by Pu Yi, the last emperor of China--is illicitly sold to an eccentric French linguist, Paul d'Ampere, who is imprisoned as a result. In jail, he devotes himself to studying its ancient text.
A young Western scholar in China hears this account from the grocer Toomchooq, whose name mysteriously connects him to the document. She falls in love with both teller and tale, but when d'Ampere is killed in prison, Toomchooq disappears, and she, pregnant with his child, embarks on a search for her lost love and the scroll that begins, "Once on a moonless night . . ."Author: Dai Sijie
ISBN-10: 0307456730
ISBN-13: 9780307456731
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 08/10/2010
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.24w x 0.65d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 10/10/2010 pg. 28
Library Journal 04/01/2013 pg. 47
By Dai Sijie
xBorn in China in 1954, Dai is a filmmaker and novelist. He left China in 1984 for France, where he now lives and works. He is the author of the international best seller Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in the United Kingdom and made into a film) and of Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch (winner of the Prix Femina).Sijie
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