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"Li is extraordinary . . . a storyteller of the first order . . . each tale in this collection is as wild and beautiful and thorny as a heart. . . Li inhabits the lives of her characters with such force and compassion that one one cannot help but marvel at her remarkable talents." Junot Díaz
"This is work that lasts. These sly women, punished men, these worried, worrying, surprising characters are held aloft and illuminated in Yiyun Li's strong and magical prose." Amy Bloom
"In the most dismal circumstances and the most unlikely subjects: the old, the forgotten, the bookish, the unattractive; Yiyun Li has the rare ability to conjure hope. She writes with precision and delicacy about the Chinese diaspora and about the new China and in doing so, she writes about us all." Mona Simpson
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"Li is extraordinary ... a storyteller of the first order ... each tale in this collection is as wild and beautiful and thorny as a heart... Li inhabits the lives of her characters with such force and compassion that one one cannot help but marvel at her remarkable talents." Junot Diaz "This is work that lasts. These sly women, punished men, these worried, worrying, surprising characters are held aloft and illuminated in Yiyun Li's strong and magical prose." Amy Bloom "In the most dismal circumstances and the most unlikely subjects: the old, the forgotten, the bookish, the unattractive; Yiyun Li has the rare ability to conjure hope. She writes with precision and delicacy about the Chinese diaspora and about the new China and in doing so, she writes about us all." Mona Simpson
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Yiyun Li's stories are simply told, but in the telling they reveal the complex histories and emotions of her characters. Each opens in such a way that one is compelled to read on: 'Kindness', for example, begins:
"I am a forty-one-year old woman living by myself, in the same one-bedroom flat where I have always lived, in a derelict building on the outskirts of Beijing that is threatened to be demolished by government-backed real estate developers."
Over the course of this novella, flashbacks reveal how the narrator has ended up in this position and how a life in which friendship and kindness have been proffered is now so empty. These themes of misunderstanding and miscommunication are revisited in the book's other stories in which the characters' loneliness, desire, or hatred lead them to delusion, sometimes leavened by hope.
The stories are all set in China and the memory of Mao's regime lurks in the background, sometimes coming brutally to the fore in glancing but powerful details. There are also brief glimpses into the lives of Chinese migrants abroad.
Yiyun Li's first collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers won the Guardian First Book Award, and this is an equally accomplished and satisfying read.
"I am a forty-one-year old woman living by myself, in the same one-bedroom flat where I have always lived, in a derelict building on the outskirts of Beijing that is threatened to be demolished by government-backed real estate developers."
Over the course of this novella, flashbacks reveal how the narrator has ended up in this position and how a life in which friendship and kindness have been proffered is now so empty. These themes of misunderstanding and miscommunication are revisited in the book's other stories in which the characters' loneliness, desire, or hatred lead them to delusion, sometimes leavened by hope.
The stories are all set in China and the memory of Mao's regime lurks in the background, sometimes coming brutally to the fore in glancing but powerful details. There are also brief glimpses into the lives of Chinese migrants abroad.
Yiyun Li's first collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers won the Guardian First Book Award, and this is an equally accomplished and satisfying read.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Yiyun Li is a gifted observer of human behaviour. Her intelligent, emotional stories are often focused on acknowledging and spreading the message of tolerance and love. Pure pleasure study, simply a must-have for some more demanding readers.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Having loved her previous book, I was extremely disappointed with this one. This is another collection of short stories but the stories never seem to go anywhere. I found that I would start to become intruigued by some of the characters and begin to get into a story and then it would end abruptly.
I would describe this as a collection of unfinished stories rather than short stories. Sorry!
I would describe this as a collection of unfinished stories rather than short stories. Sorry!
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