{"product_id":"land-of-big-numbers-stories","title":"Land of Big Numbers: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Best Book of the Year: Barack Obama - NPR - \u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cem\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cem\u003eEsquire \u003c\/em\u003e- \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e - Chicago Public Library - \u003cem\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMalala Yousafzai's Fearless Book Club Pick for Literati \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \"Dazzling...Riveting.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e--\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"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?\"\u003c\/strong\u003e --\u003cstrong\u003eJennifer Egan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \"Immensely rewarding, from the first sentence to the last . . . An exceptional collection.\" --Charles Yu\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \"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 \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\" \u003c\/em\u003e(\u003cem\u003eElle\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGripping and compassionate, \u003cem\u003eLand of Big Numbers\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCutting 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51947294294247,"sku":"9780358272557","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_6dee8162-bc24-4c17-8aa1-01c12581dc4a.jpg?v=1775486171","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/land-of-big-numbers-stories","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}