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3 de feb. de 2009 · Paperback. $16.13. Audio CD. $29.24. Brilliant and illuminating, this astonishing debut novel by the award-winning writer Yiyun Li is set in China in the late 1970s, when Beijing was rocked by the Democratic Wall Movement, an anti-Communist groundswell designed to move China beyond the dark shadow of the Cultural Revolution toward a more ...
15 de feb. de 2009 · Y iyun Li's 2005 debut story collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers earned her comparisons with Chekhov and Alice Munro. Her first novel, The Vagrants, draws heavily on the art of the short ...
3 de feb. de 2009 · The vagrants of the novel’s title turn out to be Mr. and Mrs. Hua, an elderly, childless couple who spent their earlier years taking in abandoned girls, only to be forced, ultimately, to give up all of their adoptive daughters. Late in the book, Mrs. Hua considers “giving up their home and going back to the vagrant life.
15 de dic. de 2008 · This is an a very rare movie called "DISK-O-TEK HOLIDAY" circa 1964. This includes an even rarer video appearance by the Vagrants. Check out Leslie West, at...
The Vagrants is the first novel by Yiyun Li. It was published in 2009, following her award-winning 2005 short story collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. The novel won Li the 2009 gold medal of California Book Award for fiction.
About The Vagrants. In 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. Shortlisted for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Morning dawns on the provincial city of Muddy River.
Vagrancy is the condition of wandering homelessness without regular employment or income. Vagrants (also known as bums, vagabonds), rogues, tramps or drifters) usually live in poverty and support themselves by travelling while engaging in begging, scavenging, or petty theft.In Western countries, vagrancy was historically a crime punishable with forced labor, military service, imprisonment, or ...
