# Once on a Moonless Night

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- Book: [Once on a Moonless Night](https://www.bookquiver.com/dai-sijie/once-on-a-moonless-night) ([Once on a Moonless Night.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/dai-sijie/once-on-a-moonless-night.md))
- Authors: [Dai Sijie](https://www.bookquiver.com/dai-sijie)
- Publisher: anchor
- ISBN: 978-03-0745-673-1
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2010-08-10
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A 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...