Land of Big Numbers: Stories

Author:   Te-Ping Chen ,  Eddy Lee ,  Fiona Rene ,  Christopher Naoki Lee
Publisher:   Hmh Adult Audio
Edition:   Library Edition
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9781664783690


Publication Date:   02 February 2021
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A story collection offering vivid portrayals of the men and women of modern China and its diaspora Gripping and compassionate, Land of Big Numbers traces the journeys of the diverse and legion Chinese people, their history, their government, and how all of that has tumbled--messily, violently, but still beautifully--into the present. Cutting between clear-eyed realism and tongue-in-cheek magical realism, Chen's stories coalesce into a portrait of a people striving for openings where mobility is limited. Twins take radically different paths: one becomes a professional gamer, the other a political activist. A woman moves to the city to work at a government call center and is followed by her violent ex-boyfriend. A man is swept into the high-risk, high-reward temptations of China's volatile stock exchange. And a group of people sit, trapped for no reason, on a subway platform for months, waiting for official permission to leave. With acute social insight, Te-Ping Chen layers years of experience reporting on the ground in China with incantatory prose in this taut, surprising debut, proving herself both a remarkable cultural critic and an astonishingly accomplished new literary voice.

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Author:   Te-Ping Chen ,  Eddy Lee ,  Fiona Rene ,  Christopher Naoki Lee
Publisher:   Hmh Adult Audio
Imprint:   Hmh Adult Audio
Edition:   Library Edition
ISBN:  

9781664783690


ISBN 10:   1664783695
Publication Date:   02 February 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Gripping and illuminating . . . At the heart of Te-Ping Chen's remarkable debut lies a question all too relevant in 21st Century America: What is freedom? -- Jennifer Egan


Gripping and illuminating...At the heart of Te-Ping Chen's remarkable debut lies a question all too relevant in twenty-first-century America: What is freedom? -- Jennifer Egan, New York Times bestselling author Chen emerges as a fiction powerhouse, each of her ten stories an immersive literary event...Traversing continents and cultures, moving effortlessly between China and the US, Chen deftly presents everyday lives that entertain, educate, and universally resonate. -- Booklist (starred review) Brimming with tales of men and women in modern China desperately seeking a sense of reinvention. -- O, The Oprah Magazine


Gripping and illuminating...At the heart of Te-Ping Chen's remarkable debut lies a question all too relevant in twenty-first-century America: What is freedom? -- Jennifer Egan


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TE-PING CHEN's fiction has been published in, or is forthcoming from, The New Yorker, Granta, Guernica, Tin House, and The Atlantic. A reporter with the Wall Street Journal, she was previously a correspondent for the paper in Beijing and Hong Kong. Prior to joining the Journal in 2012, she spent a year in China as a Fulbright fellow. She lives in Philadelphia. Christine Lakin is an Earphones Award-winning narrator and acclaimed television actress, best known for her roles as Alicia Al Lambert on the hit family comedy Step by Step and as Joan of Arc on Showtime's Reefer Madness. Lynn Chen has worked as an actress and a narrator. She is best known for playing Vivian Shing in the feature film, Saving Face. She has also starred on numerous television shows, such as Numb3rs, All My Children, Law & Order, and Saturday Night Live. Coming soon...

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