Gripping and illuminating .
A woman moves to the city to work at a government call center and is followed by her violent ex-boyf.
Twins take radically different paths: one becomes a professional gamer, the other a political activist.
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.
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. --Charles Yu A debut collection from an emerging fiction powerhouse, vivid portrayals of the men and women of modern China and its diaspora that entertain, educate, and universally resonate (Booklist, starred review).
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 Immensely rewarding, from the first sentence to the last...
An exceptional collection. . .
Gripping and illuminating .
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.
And a group of people sit, trapped for no reason, on a subway platform for months, waiting for official permission to leave.
A man is swept into the high-risk, high-reward temptations of China\'s volatile stock exchange.
A woman moves to the city to work at a government call center and is followed by her violent ex-boyfriend.
Twins take radically different paths: one becomes a professional gamer, the other a political activist.
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.
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 A debut collection from an extraordinary new talent that vividly gives voice to the men and women of modern China and its diaspora Gripping and compassionate, Land of Big Numbers depicts 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. . .
Gripping and illuminating
