A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
A beautifully executed debut collection of 10 stories explores the ravages of the Cultural Revolution on modern Chinese, both in China and America. Extra portrays the grim plight of Granny Lin, an elderly widow without a pension, whose job as a maid at a boarding school outside Beijing leads to a surprising friendship with one of her young charges, Kang. Li deftly weaves a political message into her human portraits: young Kang, the son of a powerful man and his now disfavored first wife, is an extra-that is, as useless in the new society as Granny Lin has become. A hollowed-out recluse in the collective apartment block of Death Is Not a Bad J…
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- ISBN: 978-0-00-719663-0
- EAN: 9780007196630
- Produktnummer: 2273751
- Verlag: Harpercollins Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 254 S.
- Masse: H20.0 cm x B12.9 cm x D2.0 cm 180 g
- Gewicht: 180
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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 Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists under 35, and was named by The New Yorker as one of the top 20 writers under 40. She lives in Oakland, California with her husband and their two sons.
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