Gold Boy, Emerald Girl

Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li


Authors
Yiyun Li
ISBN
9780007303090
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
256
Dimensions
135 x 216mm

The stories in this collection, like the stories in A THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD PRAYERS , are mostly set in China. The country portrayed here is the China of the 21st century, where economic development has led to new situations unknown to previous decades: residents in a shabby apartment building witnessing in awe the real estate boom; a local entrepreneur-turned-philanthropist sheltering women in trouble in her mansion; a group of retired women discovering fame late in their lives as private investigators specialising in extramarital affairs; a young woman setting up a blog to publicise an alleged affair of her father.
Underneath the veneer of prosperity and opportunity, however, lies the struggles of characters trying to reorient themselves in the unfamiliar landscapes of modern China: a widower, reminiscing about his wife, confronts a young unmarried woman purchasing condoms in a pharmacy; a new wife makes a plea to have a baby with her husband who was to be executed only to discover that she has become an instant celebrity; a middle-aged couple in America, who, upon losing their only daughter, return to their hometown in China to hire a young woman as a surrogate mother. These characters' fates are affected as much by the historical moments in which they reside as by the choices they make.
Yiyun Li's new collection of stories is a report from the frontline of a changing world, and confirms Li to be an unmissable writer.
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