Gold Boy, Emerald Girl

by Li, Yiyun
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ISBN: 9780812980158
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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.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Li, Yiyun
  • ISBN: 9780812980158
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.00 x 0.57
  • Number Of Pages: 256
  • Publication Year: 2011

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