The Vagrants (novel)
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''The Vagrants'' is the first novel by Yiyun Li. It was published in 2009, following her award-winning 2005 short story collection '' A Thousand Years of Good Prayers''. The novel won Li the 2009 gold medal of
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for fiction. In his review, in ''
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'', Pico Iyer characterizes her novel as an instance of ''"American stories that are World stories"''.


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2009 American novels 2009 debut novels Random House books {{2000s-novel-stub