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 ...

It isn't a complicated book but its pleasures are considerable. It is written for the most part in a disarmingly candid prose, and its moral--that great literature has a universal power to move--is clearly and joyfully proclaimed.