{"product_id":"the-vagrants-9780812973341","title":"The Vagrants","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn luminous prose, award-winning author Yiyun Li weaves together the lives of unforgettable characters who are forced to make moral choices, and choices for survival, in China in the late 1970s. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMorning dawns on the provincial city of Muddy River. A young woman, Gu Shan, a bold spirit and a follower of Chairman Mao, has renounced her faith in Communism. Now a political prisoner, she is to be executed for her dissent. Her distraught mother, determined to follow the custom of burning her only child's clothing to ease her journey into the next world, is about to make another bold decision. Shan's father, Teacher Gu, who has already, in his heart and mind, buried his rebellious daughter, begins to retreat into memories. Neither of them imagines that their daughter's death will have profound and far-reaching effects, in Muddy River and beyond. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn luminous prose, Yiyun Li weaves together the lives of these and other unforgettable characters, including a serious seven-year-old boy, Tong; a \u003cbr\u003ecrippled girl named Nini; the sinister idler Bashi; and Kai, a beautiful radio news announcer who is married to a man from a powerful family. Life in a world of oppression and pain is portrayed through stories of resilience, sacrifice, perversion, courage, and belief. We read of delicate moments and acts of violence by mothers, sons, husbands, neighbors, wives, lovers, and more, as Gu Shan's execution spurs a brutal government reaction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWriting with profound emotion, and in the superb tradition of fiction by such writers as Orhan Pamuk and J. M. Coetzee, Yiyun Li gives us a stunning novel that is at once a picture of life in a special part of the world during a historic period, a universal portrait of human frailty and courage, and a mesmerizing work of art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Vagrants \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"She bridges our world to the Chinese world with a mind that is incredibly supple and subtle.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eW Magazine \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A Balzacian look at one community's suppressed loves and betrayals.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Vogue \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A sweeping novel of struggle, survival, and love in the time of oppression. . . . [an] illuminating, morally complex, and symphonic novel.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16152626\"\u003eYiyun Li\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/16\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.92h x 5.56w x 0.84d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812973341\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0812973348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC039000\"\u003eVisionary \u0026amp; Metaphysical\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC008000\"\u003eSagas\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYiyun Li\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of six works of fiction--\u003ci\u003eMust I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Gold Boy, Emerald Girl\u003c\/i\u003e--and the memoir \u003ci\u003eDear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of many awards, including a PEN\/Hemingway Award, a PEN\/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize, and was featured in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e's 20 Under 40 fiction issue. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe O. Henry Prize Stories, \u003c\/i\u003e among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42684631384301,"sku":"9780812973341","price":23.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_0589015b-6b44-4845-a924-ffda5398dff4.jpg?v=1753541457","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-vagrants-9780812973341","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}