The Vagrants - Yiyun Li
Category: Novel
Narrator: Jackie Chung
Tags: Novel, Historical Fiction, Literature, Adults
Original publication date: 2009 Audiobook release date: 2010 Publisher: Recorded Books, LLC Audiobook duration: 11:28:43, -, 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. A young woman, Gu Shan, a bold spirit and a follower of Chairman Mao, has renounced her faith in Communism. Now a political prisoner, she is to be executed for her dissent. Her distraught mother, determined to follow the custom of burning her only childs clothing to ease her journey into the next world, is about to make another bold decision. Shans father, Teacher Gu, who has already, in his heart and mind, buried his rebellious daughter, begins to retreat into memories. Neither of them imagines that their daughters death will have profound and far-rea
