The Vagrants

The Vagrants

"A brilliant novel by the award-winning author Yiyun Li.

Set in China in the late 1970s, The Vagrants follows a group of people in a small town after the dramatic and harrowing execution of a young woman. Writing with profound emotion, and in the superb tradition of fiction by such writers as Orhan Pamuk and J. M. Coetzee, Yiyun Li gives us a stunning novel that is at once a picture of life in a special part of the world during a historical period, a universal portrait of human frailty and courage, and a mesmerizing work of art."

 

Yiyun Li has written a book that is as important politically as it is artistically. The Vagrants is an enormous achievement.

-Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto and Run: A Novel.

 

Magnificent.
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)


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