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The Vagrants
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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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Edition:
Unabridged
Street Date:
11/18/2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781456111564
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Yiyun Li. (2009). The Vagrants. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc.

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Yiyun Li. 2009. The Vagrants. Recorded Books, Inc.

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Yiyun Li, The Vagrants. Recorded Books, Inc, 2009.

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Yiyun Li. The Vagrants. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc, 2009.

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