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Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
Yiyun Li

Random House Publishing Group
October 2011
On Sale: September 27, 2011
256 pages
ISBN: 0679604065
EAN: 9780679604068
Kindle: B003EY7IVS
Paperback / e-Book
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Fiction Family Life

In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li, Hemingway Foundation/PENAward winner and acclaimed author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Vagrants,gives us exquisite fiction filled with suspense, depth, and beauty, in which history, politics, and folklore magnificently illuminate the human condition.

Inthe title story, a professor introduces her middle-aged son to a favorite student, unaware of the student's true affections. In A Man Like Him, a lifelong bachelor finds kinship with a man wrongly accused of an indiscretion. In The Proprietress, a reporter from Shanghai travels to a small town to write an article about the local prison, only to discover a far more intriguing story involving a shopkeeper who offersrefuge to the wives andc hildren of inmates. In House Fire, a young man who suspects his father of sleeping with the young man's wife seeks the help of a detective agency run by a group of feisty old women.

Written in lyrical prose and with stunning honesty, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl revealsworlds strange and familiar, and cultures both traditional and modern, to create a mesmerizing and vibrant landscape of life.

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