{"product_id":"yiyun-li-the-vagrants-2009-paperback","title":"Yiyun Li: The Vagrants [2009] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe much-anticipated first novel from the prize-winning Chinese writer, acclaimed in the Guardian by Michel Faber as having 'the talent, the vision and the respect for life's insoluble mysteries to be a truly fine writer.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eIn 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. She is twenty-eight years old and has already spent ten years in prison. 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. Sumei, a mother of a young child, is sentenced to death as an anti-Communist activist. They are all taken on a painful journey; from one young woman's death to another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eWe follow the pain of Gu Shan's parents, the hope and fear of the leaders of the protest and their families. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eYiyun Li's novel is based on the true story which took place in China in 1979.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Li, Yiyun","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":52359345766739,"sku":"9780007299096","price":18.56,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":52359345733971,"sku":"XV80007299096","price":3.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/li-yiyun-yiyun-li-the-vagrants-2009-paperback-1204596309.jpg?v=1762981648","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/yiyun-li-the-vagrants-2009-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}