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At the heart of Te-Ping Chen's remarkable debut lies a question all too relevant in 21st Century America: What is freedom?\" --Jennifer Egan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Immensely rewarding, from the first sentence to the last . . . An exceptional collection.\" --Charles Yu\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\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 Wall Street Journal\" (Elle).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGripping and compassionate, Land of Big Numbers 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. 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These are just some of the myriad lives to be evoked in The Land of Big Numbers, a collection of stories which - sometimes playfully, sometimes darkly - draws back the curtain on the realities of modern China and unveils a cast of characters as rich and complicated as any in world literature. With virtuosic brilliance, Te-ping Chen sheds light on a country much talked about but little understood and announces the birth of a bright new star in the literary firmament.   “A spectacular work, comic, timely, profound. Te-Ping Chen has a superb eye for detail in a China where transformation occurs simultaneously too fast and too slow for lives in pursuit of meaning in a brave new world. Her characters are achingly alive. It’s rare to read a collection so satisfying, where every story adds to a gripping and intricate world.” Madeleine Thien, author of the Booker-shortlisted Do Not Say We Have Nothing   \"Te-Ping Chen shows us how much life, loss, and quiet pleasure exists in the world, just out of view.\" Alexandra Kleeman","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49585700765969,"sku":"GOR012805338","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50468955816209,"sku":"NGR9781471190612","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52987677147409,"sku":"GOR014681533","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1471190617.jpg?v=1751339501"},{"product_id":"the-celestials-book-chen-te-ping-9781471190629","title":"The Celestials","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51201405976849,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51201408467217,"sku":"NGR9781471190629","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1471190625.jpg?v=1750859200"},{"product_id":"celestials-pa-book-te-ping-chen-9781471190643","title":"CELESTIALS PA","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51627577082129,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51627577737489,"sku":"NGR9781471190643","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1471190641.jpg?v=1751339502"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-te-ping-chen.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}