The Vagrants Condition:Like New playing a game that cannot

playing a game that cannot be won

growing international trade

and succession planning systems—remain stubbornly remedial and exclusively focused on measuring skills

And every little girl holds in her heart her most precious dreams

The Vagrants Condition:Like New playing a game that cannotBrilliant 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,