Land of Big Numbers - by Te-Ping Chen (Paperback)

Land of Big Numbers is a stunning debut story collection that delves into the lives of modern China and its diaspora, offering vivid portrayals of the people, their history, and their government.

With acute social insight, Te-Ping Chen layers years of experience reporting on the ground in China with incantatory prose to create a portrait of a people striving for openings where mobility is limited.

From twins taking radically different paths to a group of people trapped on a subway platform for months, Chen's stories are both heartbreaking and illuminating, proving herself a remarkable cultural critic and an astonishingly accomplished new literary voice.

With a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and one of Barack Obama's Summer Reading Picks, Land of Big Numbers is a must-read for anyone interested in the complexities of modern China and its people.