Webb6 feb. 2024 · Journalist Te-Ping Chen's fiction debut puts her reportorial talents to brilliant use, in a collection of short stories about Chinese life that will make readers reconsider their settled notions. Webb3 feb. 2024 · The first story Chen wrote for the collection (which was also the first one she’d written), “Shanghai Murmur,” appears midway through the book. Several years ago, …
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Webb11 jan. 2024 · “Shanghai Murmur” by Te-Ping Chen ( The Atlantic) Te-Ping Chen’s debut collection In Land of Big Numbers was included in Barrack Obama’s favorite reads of 2024. This story is about a flower shop assistant’s involvement with a professional who has a fountain pen that costs more than the assistant’s yearly salary. Webb2 feb. 2024 · LAND OF BIG NUMBERS is the debut collection of short stories by Te-Ping Chen that compassionately portrays the uniqueness and complexity of life in modern China. With a blend of realism and surrealism, the ten stories provide sharp social commentary on China while giving a strong voice to the diverse Chinese people.I loved … c throw warning
Land of big numbers
Webb11 jan. 2024 · “Shanghai Murmur” by Te-Ping Chen (The Atlantic) Te-Ping Chen’s debut collection In Land of Big Numbers was included in Barrack Obama’s favorite reads of 2024. This story is about a flower shop assistant’s involvement with a professional who has a fountain pen that costs more than the assistant’s yearly salary. Webb1 feb. 2024 · Gripping and compassionate, Land of Big Numbers traces the journeys of the diverse and legion Chinese people, their history, their government, and how all of that has tumbled—messily, violently, but still beautifully—into the present. Cutting between clear-eyed realism and tongue-in-cheek magical realism, Chen’s stories coalesce into a ... Webb5 feb. 2024 · Photo of Te-Ping Chen by Lucas Foglia. YC One story in the book that touched me in a different way from the rest is “Shanghai Murmur.”. As a high school … c++ throw without argument