$4.98
SKU: x24498vagrants
Set in China
in 1979, Yiyun Li’s powerful and compelling first novel, THE VAGRANTS, charts the difficult life of
provincial Muddy River. The Cultural Revolution has
ended, a Democracy Wall is starting in Beijing,
but the privation and repression are going strong in the small town. Li’s cast of characters
ranges from the privileged party functionaries—awarded TV sets for cracking down on
counterrevolutionaries—to the disgraced parents of a recently executed
dissident, to a pair of itinerant ragpickers who also acquire abandoned infant
girls. The story concerns how the town divides around the recent execution.
Available in paperback.
Price: $4.98
