The Vagrants Audie Award for Fiction (2015) love and freedom

love and freedom

He even resorted to hiding most of his stock - almost ten thousand books - in attics all over Kabul

All he knows is that he must keep walking

known primarily for its erotic realism

As Voldemort's sinister forces amass and a spirit of gloom and fear sweeps the land

The Vagrants Audie Award for Fiction (2015) love and freedomBrilliant and illuminating, this astonishing debut novel by the award winning writer Yiyun Li is set in China in the late 1970s, when Beijing was rocked by the Democratic Wall Movement, an anti Communist groundswell designed to move China beyond the dark shadow of the Cultural Revolution toward a more enlightened and open society. In this powerful and beautiful story, we follow a group of people in a small town during this dramatic and harrowing time,