ISBN: 0679604065 9780679604068

Category: Fiction / Short Stories (single author)

Page count: 240

In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li, a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner, a MacArthur Fellow, and one of <i>The New Yorker</i>’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, <i>Gold Boy, Emerald Girl </i>introduces us to worlds strange and familiar, creating a mesmerizing and vibrant landscape of life.