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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Yiyun Li
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Description for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Paperback. Brilliant and original, 'A Thousand Years of Good Prayers' introduces a remarkable first collection of stories about China from an author set to become a major literary talent. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 178.
Brilliant and original, `A Thousand Years of Good Prayers' introduces a remarkable first collection of stories about China from an author set to become a major literary talent. 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 ... Read more
Brilliant and original, `A Thousand Years of Good Prayers' introduces a remarkable first collection of stories about China from an author set to become a major literary talent. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007196630
SKU
V9780007196630
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99-95
About Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing and came to the United States in 1996. Her debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and Guardian First Book Award. Her novel, The Vagrants, was shortlisted for Dublin IMPAC Award. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. She was selected by ... Read more
Reviews for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
`Li's writing is beautifully spare and controlled.' The Times 'Yiyun's confidence as a storyteller lends her fiction a traditional air, but there's nothing old fashioned about her perspective...When I've sampled other recent Chinese writing, I've had a sense of western publishers being seduced by the ... Read more