Gold Boy, Emerald Girl

By Yiyun Li

Book Overview

In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li, a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner, a MacArthur Fellow, and one of The New Yorker 's top 20 fiction writers under 40, gives us exquisite stories in which politics and folklore magnificently illuminate the human condition. A professor introduces her middle-aged son to a favorite student, unaware of the student's true affections. A lifelong bachelor finds kinship with a man wrongly accused of an indiscretion. Six women establish a private investigating agency to battle extramarital affairs in Beijing. Written in lyrical prose and with stunning honesty, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl introduces us to worlds strange and familiar, creating a mesmerizing and vibrant landscape of life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812980158
• ISBN13: 9780812980158
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"