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Land of Big Numbers

by Te-Ping Chen
Land of Big Numbers
Land of Big Numbers

Intimate narratives unveiling modern China's complexity.

"Land of Big Numbers" is a striking patchwork of stories that might hit close to home for anyone curious about the real China beyond the headlines. Te-ping Chen masterfully weaves together the dreams and struggles of diverse characters navigating life in a rapidly changing society. It's a book that could grip you with its blend of the personal and the political, making distant realities feel incredibly close and real.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Land of Big Numbers

by Te-Ping Chen
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ISBN: 9781471190599
Authors: Te-Ping Chen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster UK
Date of Publication: 2021-03-04
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Asian Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.94
(rated by 8926 readers)

Description

A debut collection from an extraordinary new talent that vividly gives voice to the men and women of modern China and its diaspora. Gripping and compassionate, Land of Big Numbers depicts 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.
 

Intimate narratives unveiling modern China's complexity.

"Land of Big Numbers" is a striking patchwork of stories that might hit close to home for anyone curious about the real China beyond the headlines. Te-ping Chen masterfully weaves together the dreams and struggles of diverse characters navigating life in a rapidly changing society. It's a book that could grip you with its blend of the personal and the political, making distant realities feel incredibly close and real.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.