by Dai Sijie · SALAMANDRA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478889440
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«El complejo de Di» is the humorous adventure novel by Dai Sijie, published by Salamandra in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
Muo, a Chinese psychoanalyst trained in Paris, returns to his country to free Volcán de la Vieja Luna from prison, jailed for sending European press photos of police torturing detainees. To gain the favor of the corrupt judge Di, he must find a young virgin; thus begins a tragicomic adventure through contemporary China.
Translation by José Antonio Soriano; the French original was Le Complexe de Di, published in 2003 and winner of the Prix Femina.
For readers of literary fiction interested in China, corrosive humor, and social criticism with a psychological backdrop.
Dai Sijie is a Chinese French author and filmmaker living in France since 1984. He writes in French. His first novel, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, written in French, was a best seller and has been translated into more than 25 languages.
