

The Vagrants
Author: Yiyun Li
Narrator: Jackie Chung
Unabridged: 11 hr 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 01/15/2010
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Yiyun Li
Narrator: Jackie Chung
Unabridged: 11 hr 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 01/15/2010
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
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.
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