6/28/2023 0 Comments The vagrants novel![]() ![]() ![]() "Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House. Includes reader's guide and discussion questions The Vagrants by Yiyun Li - Reading Guide: 9780812973341 - : Books In luminous prose, award-winning author Yiyun Li weaves together the lives of unforgettable characters who are forced to make moral choices, and choices. Even those who seem unconnected to the tragedy - an eleven-year-old boy seeking fame and glory, a nineteen-year-old village idiot in love with a young and deformed girl, and old couple making a living by scavenging the town's garbage cans - are caught up in remorseless turn of events We follow the pain of Gu Shan's parents, the hope and fear of the leaders of the protest and their families. It also deals with the aftermath of losing a child to suicide, and is deeply informed. They are all taken on a painful journey from one young woman's death to another. Yiyun Lis novel Must I Go is a portrait of the rich inner life of an octogenarian woman in long-term care. Sumei, a mother of a young child, is sentenced to death as an anti-Communist activist. The citizens stage a protest after her death and, over the following six weeks, the town goes through uncertainty, hope, and fear until eventually the rebellion is brutally suppressed. ![]() She is twenty-eight years old and has already spent ten years in prison. In the provincial town of Muddy Waters in China, a young woman named Gu Shan is sentenced to death for her loss of faith in Communism. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |