Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You In Your Life
A luminous memoir from the award-winning author of The Vagrants and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers'What a long way it is from one life to another. Yet why write if not for that distance?'Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this is a memoir of a life lived with books. Written over two years while the author battled suicidal depression, Dear Friend is a painful and yet richly affirming examination of what makes life worth living.Li grew up in China, her mother suffering from mental illness, and has spent her adult life as an immigrant in a country not her own. She has been a scientist, an author, an immigrant, a mother - and t…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-241-97867-2
- EAN: 9780241978672
- Produktnummer: 20354719
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 844 KB
Über den Autor
Yiyun Li is the author of two novels, The Vagrants and Kinder Than Solitude, and two short story collections, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl. She has won literary awards including the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the Guardian First Book Award, and was listed among Granta's 21 Best of Young American Novelists 2007. Her stories have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review and elsewhere. She lives in Iowa City with her husband and two sons. Dear Friend, From My Life I Write To You In Your Life will be published by Hamish Hamilton in February 2017.
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