The Vagrants

In 1979 Muddy River, a small provincial Chinese city, the Gu family struggles to deal with the imminent loss of their daughter, Gu Shan, about to be executed as a counterrevolutionary, while their neighbors--crippled Nini, lazy Bashi, seven-year-old Tong, and Kai, the beautiful wife of an important man--deal with the realities of life in China. 30,000 first printing.