The Vagrants PEN Translation Prize for Matthew Ward (1989) a knight of the mind

a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress

In the space of little more than a year what had been seen as the age of wisdom was viewed as the age of foolishness

retaliation

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spending his days as if he were made up of the most telling bits of other people

The Vagrants PEN Translation Prize for Matthew Ward (1989) a knight of the mindBrilliant and illuminating, this astonishing debut novel by the award winning writer Yiyun Li is set in China in the late 1970s, when Beijing was rocked by the Democratic Wall Movement, an anti Communist groundswell designed to move China beyond the dark shadow of the Cultural Revolution toward a more enlightened and open society. In this powerful and beautiful story, we follow a group of people in a small town during this dramatic and harrowing time,