Author | Yiyun Li |
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Publisher | Random House Publishing Group |
Publication date | 2009 |
Pages | 352 |
ISBN | 9781588367730 |
The Vagrants is the first novel by Yiyun Li.[1] It was published in 2009, following her award-winning 2005 short story collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.[2]
The novel won Li the 2009 gold medal of California Book Award for fiction.[2]
In his review, in The New York Times, Pico Iyer characterizes her novel as an instance of "American stories that are World stories".[1]