Land of big numbers / Te-Ping Chen.
Material type: TextPublisher: Boston : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021Description: 236 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780358331544
- 0358331544
- 9780358272557
- 0358272556
- Chen, Te-Ping. Lulu
- Chen, Te-Ping. Hotline girl
- Chen, Te-Ping. New fruit
- Chen, Te-Ping. Field notes on a marriage
- Chen, Te-Ping. Flying machine
- Chen, Te-Ping. On the street where you live
- Chen, Te-Ping. Shanghai murmur
- Chen, Te-Ping. Beautiful country
- Chen, Te-Ping. Gubeikou spirit
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Fiction | CHEN, TE-PING | Available | 33111009775046 | ||||
Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | CHEN, TE-PING | Available | 33111010462063 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
One of Barack Obama's Summer Reading Picks
"Dazzling...Riveting." -- New York Times Book Review
"Chen has one of the year's big debut books." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
"Gripping and illuminating . . . 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." --Charles Yu
A "stirring and brilliant" debut story collection, offering vivid portrayals of the men and women of modern China and its diaspora, "both love letter and sharp social criticism," from a phenomenal new literary talent bringing great "insight from her years as a reporter with the Wall Street Journal" ( Elle ).
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.
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. Twins take radically different paths: one becomes a professional gamer, the other a political activist. A woman moves to the city to work at a government call center and is followed by her violent ex-boyfriend. A man is swept into the high-risk, high-reward temptations of China's volatile stock exchange. And a group of people sit, trapped for no reason, on a subway platform for months, waiting for official permission to leave.
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.
"A debut story collection offering a kaleidoscopic portrait of life for contemporary Chinese people, set between China and the United States"-- Provided by publisher.
Lulu -- Hotline girl -- New fruit -- Field notes on a marriage -- Flying machine -- On the street where you live -- Shanghai murmur -- Land of big numbers -- Beautiful country -- Gubeikou spirit.