The Vagrants Audie Award for Fiction (2015) Landscapes arise from particular historical

Landscapes arise from particular historical circumstances

While Europe is becoming increasingly secularized

love and freedom

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

and he finds himself drawn to a new

The Vagrants Audie Award for Fiction (2015) Landscapes arise from particular historicalBrilliant 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,