New York: Random House, (2009,) dj. Hardcover - The author's very highly praised first novel, set in China in the late 1970s when Beijing was rocked by the Democratic Wall Movement. Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2009. Li is the recipient of the Hemingway Foundation PEN award and was selected by Granta as one of the best young American novelists under thirty-five and in 2010, she was chosen by the New Yorker as one of the 20 best writers in the US under the age of 40.. 337 pp. ISBN: 1400063132.