Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
Author(s): Yiyun Li
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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Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Random House Trade
- : Random House Trade
- : 0.2
- : 26 September 2011
- : 203mm X 135mm X 14mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : 235
- : Paperback / softback
- : Yiyun Li