A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers
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1/02/2007
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Paperback
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In this extraordinary first collection, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and guilt. In ′Immortality′, winner of the Paris Review prize, a young man bears a striking resemblance to the dictator, and so finds a strange kind of calling. In ′Extra′, first published in the New Yorker, a Chinese woman, alone in middle age, befriends a young boy who has become an outcast in a remote country school. In their friendship, we see how love can begin to overcome the strictures that dominate their lives.
In turn horrifying and breathtakingly lyrical, Yiyun Li, a new and talented young Chinese writer, confronts the silence that dominated the history of her country, and illuminates how mythology, politics, history and culture intersect with personality. She leaves us with an enduring vision of a country undergoing tremendous change.
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Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
The stories in this collection, like the stories in A THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD PRAYERS, are mostly set in China. The country portrayed here is the China of the 21st century, where economic development has led to new situations unknown to previous decades: residents in a shabby apartment...
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Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
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