{"product_id":"land-of-big-numbers-stories","title":"Land of Big Numbers: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Dazzling...Riveting.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Chen has one of the year's big debut books.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\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\/b\u003e --\u003cb\u003eJennifer Egan \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Immensely rewarding, from the first sentence to the last . . . An exceptional collection.\" --Charles Yu \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\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 \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\" \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Gripping and compassionate, \u003ci\u003eLand of Big Numbers\u003c\/i\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39325139206244,"sku":"9780358272557","price":14.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/land-of-big-numbers-stories","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}