The Vagrants de Yiyun Li - 2009

New York: Random House, 2009. VG/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Yiyun Li on the title page. The book is tight with solid hinges and good tips. Bump to the back bottom board and crease to mid-front spine. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($25.00) with faint shelf wear. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 337 pages. 6½ x 9½" tall.

The Vagrants is a novel set in China during the late 1970s, when Beijing was rocked by the Democratic Wall Movement — the era that was a forebear of the Tiananmen Square uprising. In the provincial city of Muddy River, a young woman, Gu Shan, has boldly renounced her faith in Communism and is now a political prisoner set to be executed for her dissent. Her distraught mother is about to make another bold decision and her father, Teacher Gu, begins to retreat into memories — neither parent realizing that their daughter's death will have profound and far-reaching effects, in Muddy River and beyond.