Gold boy, emerald girl
By: Yiyun Li
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780007303120; 9780007303090
Subjects: Fiction; Social conditions; Short stories
Description: The stories in the collection are mostly set in the China of the 21st century, where economic development has led to situations unknown to previous decades: residents in a shabby block of flats witnessing in awe the property boom; a local entrepreneur-turned-philanthropist sheltering women in trouble in her mansion; a group of retired women discovering fame late in their lives as private investigators specialising in extramarital affairs; a young woman setting up a blog to publicise an alleged affair of her father.
Table of contents: title: Kindness; title: A man like him; title: Prison; title: The proprietress; title: House fire; title: Number three, garden road; title: Sweeping past; title: Souvenir; title: Gold boy, emerald girl.