Gold Boy, Emerald Girl · Stories
- Authors
- Li, Yiyun
- Publisher
- Random House
- Tags
- fiction , short stories (single author)
- ISBN
- 9780679604068
- Date
- 2010-09-14T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.25 MB
- Lang
- en
In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li, a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner, a MacArthur Fellow, and one of The New Yorker ’s top 20 fiction writers under 40, gives us exquisite stories in which politics and folklore magnificently illuminate the human condition. A professor introduces her middle-aged son to a favorite student, unaware of the student’s true affections. A lifelong bachelor finds kinship with a man wrongly accused of an indiscretion. Six women establish a private investigating agency to battle extramarital affairs in Beijing. Written in lyrical prose and with stunning honesty, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl introduces us to worlds strange and familiar, creating a mesmerizing and vibrant landscape of life.
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