Kai had always been praised for her mature performances, but looking at her picture now, she could see little understanding in the girl's eyes of the martyrs she had impersonated. The story is set during the Cultural Revolution in China near a. the provincial capital, and it was not a surprise that she was given every major role, from Autumn Jade, who had been beheaded after a failed assassination of a provincial representative in the last emperor's court, to Chen Tiejun, the young Communist who had been shot alongside her lover shortly after they had announced each other husband and wife in front of the firing squad. Yiyun Li's The Vagrants, published in 2009 by Random House established the author as a new and welcome voice in American fiction. Kai was twelve then, a rising star in the theater school at. Think of how Autumn Jade was prepared to give up her life, Kai remembered her teacher explaining when she was chosen to play the famous heroine in a new opera. The girl's unsmiling face was half shadowed by the hat, her eyes looking straight into the camera. The blade pointed upward, the only object of light color in the black-and-white picture. Her hands, clad in black gloves, held tightly on to the handle of a short, unsheathed sword. To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
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