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Simon Garfield examines how maps both relate and realign our history

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The Vagrants Condition:Like New But as David begins theBrilliant and illuminating, this astonishing debut novel by the award winning writer Yiyun Li is set in China in the late 1970s, when Beijing was rocked by the Democratic Wall Movement, an anti Communist groundswell designed to move China beyond the dark shadow of the Cultural Revolution toward a more enlightened and open society. In this powerful and beautiful story, we follow a group of people in a small town during this dramatic and harrowing time,