The Vagrants, Yiyun Li
The Vagrants, Yiyun Li
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The Vagrants

Author: Yiyun Li

Narrator: Jackie Chung

Unabridged: 11 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/15/2010


Synopsis

Yiyun Li is the winner of the prestigious Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. The Vagrants, set in 1979 China, is the story of those affected by the execution of a 28-year-old counterrevolutionary. Though suffering, Li's characters nevertheless struggle to maintain hope amid cruel circumstance. "Li records these events . with such a magisterial sense of direction that the reader can't help being drawn into the novel."-Publishers Weekly, starred review

About Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li is the author of several works of fiction—Wednesday’s Child; The Book of Goose; Must I Go; Where Reasons End; Kinder Than Solitude; Gold Boy, Emerald Girl; The Vagrants; and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers—and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards, including a PEN/Faulkner Award, a PEN/Malamud Award, a PEN/Hemingway Award, a PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize, and she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Alex

Part of my Fall 2017 Best Of Chinese Literature project; more here, and a cool list of books here. Nini's mother was beaten savagely while she was pregnant, and Nini was born badly deformed. Her assailant was Gu Shan, who, political tides having turned against her in 1979, is now set to be executed.......more