Shenzheners

✍ Scribed by Xue Yiwei

• Publisher: Linda Leith Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 170 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1988130069

✦ Synopsis

The country girl -- The peddler -- The physics teacher -- The dramatist -- The two sisters -- The prodigy -- The mother -- The father -- The taxi driver.;"The first book in English by acclaimed Chinese-Canadian writer Xue Yiwei, Shenzheners is inspired by the young city of Shenzhen, a market town north of Hong Kong that became a Special Economic Zone in 1980 as an experiment in introducing capitalism to Communist China. A city in which everyone is a newcomer, Shenzhen has grown astronomically to become a major metropolitan centre. Hailed as a Chinese Dubliners, the original collection was named one of the Most Influential Chinese Books of the Year in 2013, with most of the stories appearing in Best Chinese Stories."--Publisher's description.