Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Land of Big Numbers: Stories

0/5 ( ratings)

6 hours, 35 minutes

Gripping and compassionate, 'Land of Big Numbers' depicts the diverse and legion Chinese people, with 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.

©2021 Te-Ping Chen 2021 HarperCollins Publishers

Language: English

Pages: 7

Format: Audible Audio

Release: February 02, 2021

Land of Big Numbers: Stories

0/5 ( ratings)

6 hours, 35 minutes

Gripping and compassionate, 'Land of Big Numbers' depicts the diverse and legion Chinese people, with 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.

©2021 Te-Ping Chen 2021 HarperCollins Publishers

Language: English

Pages: 7

Format: Audible Audio

Release: February 02, 2021

More books from Fiona Rene

Death Game Quality Assurance

3.5/5 ( ratings)

I Know What You Did Last Summer

3.5/5 ( ratings)

A Gorilla Head Will Not Do

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?