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The Vagrants by Yiyun Li audiobook

The Vagrants

By Yiyun Li
Read by Jackie Chung

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11.46 Hours • Unabridged
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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

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Summary

A 2011 International Dublin Literary Award Finalist

A 2009 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize Finalist

An ALA Notable Book Finalist for Fiction

An Amazon Best Book of the Month, February 2009

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

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Li honed two valuable aspects of her writing talent. She is a keen observer of even the cruelest workaday details…[and] Ms. Li’s second gift is for soap-operatic plotting of the sort that has given down-home emotional impetus to ostensibly exotic best sellers like Memoirs of a Geisha. She puts this talent to highly effective use in The Vagrants. Though this novel is at heart a collection of overlapping separate stories, Ms. Li links them with touches of melodrama and well-timed accidents of fate.” —New York Times
“Extraordinary…beautifully paced, exquisitely detailed…In this most amazing first novel, Yiyun Li has found a way to combine the jeweled precision of her short-story-writer’s gaze with a spellbinding vision of the power of the human spirit.” —Chicago Tribune
“A powerful and thoughtful novel…[Li’s] become a terrific writer. She doesn’t condemn or condescend to a single soul here, just makes us see how nerve-racking and soul-killing it must be to live in a despotic nation run by a lot of very high-strung people. For readers who love complex novels about worlds we scarcely understand, The Vagrants will be a revelation.” —Washington Post
“[Li is] one of America’s best young novelists.” —Newsweek
“Li offers both a bleak view of a historical moment when people were the most dangerous animals in the world and a meditation on the act of martyrdom, which is presented both as a duty and as a luxury that few could afford.”  —New Yorker
“The Vagrants establishes Li as an important new voice in American fiction.” —Amazon.com, editorial review
“[A] magnificent and jaw-droppingly grim novel…Li records these events dispassionately and with such a magisterial sense of direction that the reader can’t help being drawn into the novel, like a sleeper trapped in an anxiety dream.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Unflinching and mesmerizing, Li traces the contagion of evil with stunning precision and compassion in this tragic and beautiful novel of conscience.” —Booklist (starred review)

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Author Bio: Yiyun Li

Author Bio: Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li is the author of several works of fiction and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards, including the PEN/Malamud Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize. Her work has also 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.

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Available Formats : CD
Runtime: 11.46
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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