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" Yiyun Li is a true storyteller. Great stories offer us the details of life on the riverbanks: birth, family, dinner, and love, all framing the powerful flow of terror, death, political change, the river itself. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is as grand an epic and as tenderly private as a reader could wish."
- Amy Bloom, author of "Come to Me"
" With great tenderness, tact, and humor, these stories open a world that is culturally remote from us, and at the same time as humanly intimate as if its people were our own family and their thoughts the thoughts that lie nearest our own hearts."
- Marilynne Robinson, author of "Gilead" and "Housekeeping"
" This extraordinary collection reminds you just how big a short story can be. With wit, ruthlessness, and an understanding of human nature- its grand follies, private sorrows, and petty dreams- A Thousand Years of Good Prayers may remind you of Flannery O' Connor, though Li is an original. Read this book and marvel at a writer both at the height of her powers and at the start of a brilliant career."
- Elizabeth McCracken, author of "The Giant's House"
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. 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. 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. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780007196630
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