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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

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Brilliant and original, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers introduces a remarkable new writer whose breathtaking stories are set in China and among Chinese Americans in the United States. In this rich, astonishing collection, Yiyun Li illuminates how mythology, politics, history, and culture intersect with personality to create fate. From the bustling heart of Beijing, to a...more

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Published September 12th 2006 by Random House Trade Paperbacks (first published 2005)

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Jan 25, 2012 Jenny rated it 2 of 5 stars

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Shelves: character, subject-matter

My first unbeknownst exposure to Yiyun Li was in the Wayne Wang film, The Princess of Nebraska, which was based on Li’s story of the same name. My first thought was if it was your decision to cast Boshen as a white guy in the film then shame on you Wayne Wang! Boshen is supposed to be Chinese! I think that makes it a lot more interesting and slightly less creepy than a middle aged white man who is in love with an 18 year old Chinese man. I like the tension between Sasha and Boshen because they’r...more My first unbeknownst exposure to Yiyun Li was in the Wayne Wang film, The Princess of Nebraska, which was based on Li’s story of the same name. My first thought was if it was your decision to cast Boshen as a white guy in the film then shame on you Wayne Wang! Boshen is supposed to be Chinese! I think that makes it a lot more interesting and slightly less creepy than a middle aged white man who is in love with an 18 year old Chinese man. I like the tension between Sasha and Boshen because they’re both Chinese nationals who have escaped China for the United States and cannot reach Yang who is trapped in China. They both feel like they’ve betrayed him by leaving and yet cannot do anything to help him. In “The Princess of Nebraska” Li writes, “A man like Boshen should have an ordinary life, boring and comfortable, yet his craze for Yang made him a more interesting man” (87) and I felt the same way about this short story collection. I thought it was much more interesting that she had a couple of gay main characters. The story “Son” particularly hit home since it’s about an obedient “good” son who finally tells his mother he is gay. It’s touching and sad.

Chinese writers writing in English (or even those who have their work translated into English) always seem to write in super sparse straightforward language so I guess it’s similar to Mandarin. Sometimes it works but generally I find it difficult to find the beauty in that type of language. I had a feeling that in all this straightforward language I was missing something like maybe she wasn’t telling me something on purpose because I was supposed to read into it more. Ah Chinese people and their straightforward but not-so-straightforward way of communication! I was also a little tired of all the flower metaphors and reading about “planting seeds in his wife’s belly” in story after story. Another strike.

Though I wasn’t that keen on the writing style, Li is able to craft some memorable characters that have quotable gems: “Being a mother must be the saddest yet most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end” (91). In “Love In the Marketplace” the main character’s mother is a poor tea egg seller at the train station and the daughter tells the mother it’s a waste of money to use expensive spices since they’ll never come back to you. The mother says, “[I’m giving] them their one chance to eat the best eggs in the world” and I loved her for that pride and stubbornness. In “Immortality” the story of the village that raised imperial eunuchs is really imaginative and flirts with magical realism. There is a cool description of the village participating in a sparrow-killing day after 3 years of famine. They all wave fans and bang on things to scare the sparrows off the trees. The sparrows fly, until exhausted, they fall from the sky. It’s about how a baby is born in the village with Mao’s face and he is hired by the government to star in propaganda movies and as a stand-in for Mao after his death. In “A Thousand Years of Good Prayer” I really liked the sarcasm of the daughter, the unearthing of buried family feelings, the display of the rift between the generations, and this quote: Life provides more happiness than we ever know. We have to train ourselves to look for it (188).

Many of Li’s characters have been treated unfairly by Communist China and we see the hypocrisy, corruption, and the lengths people go through to survive because a people’s revolution wasn’t fully realized. Though that wasn’t the point of the book she does show how the Communist Party has impacted the lives of people who don’t toe the party line. Most aren’t rebels or revolutionaries—they’ve either been deemed obsolete or they’ve dared to question someone’s authority. I couldn’t get into some of the characters or the language but the good parts are Li’s quiet exploration of the lives of modern-day Chinese people who are trying to mend their broken hearts.

I also learned that I’m tired of flower metaphors and but gays make everything better.(less)

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Mar 08, 2009 Rashaan rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction

Yiyun Li came to read at Saint Mary's College of California in the Bay Area a year or so ago, and I'll never forget how she explained her method of creating drama. In a crude paraphrasing, from what I can fuzzily recall, she said each of her characters are strategically angled in opposition to one another. And these angles are where she starts from, so the story's conflict is immediate and urgent.

In her short story collection A Thousand Good Years of Prayers each character vies to break free fr...more

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Sep 23, 2012 Lillian rated it 3 of 5 stars

A book of short stories many of them brutal and written in sparse pointed language, illustrating the barrenness and futility of the characters whose lives the stories depict. There are 9 stories of Chinese people, some immigrants to the United States, some still living in China. The last story, titled, A thousand Years of Good Prayers is the most intriguing and poignant story. It is the one from which the book takes it's title. The father in the story, is concerned with his daughter's unwillingn...more

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May 01, 2009 Debbie rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: bookclub-reads

This was my bookclub read for April and I have to confess that I didn't finish it. I'm not a fan of short stories and so put off reading it until I just didn't have enough time to finish it in the time available. However, as far as short stories go, these ones were better than a lot I've read. Which isn't saying much, but it's something!

The writing was good, but the stories themselves were very negative and depressing. They dealt with the lives of Chinese people in modern day China and all the c...more

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Jun 28, 2012 Patrick McCoy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: contemporary-fiction, short-stories

I’ve been meaning to read Yiyun Li’s short story collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayer, ever since I saw the film version of the collection's title story and saw that she had been named on the Top 20 Writers Under 40 in the New Yorker. The film version directed by Wayne Wang was produced by my friend Yukie Kito. It was also filmed in my hometown: Spokane, Washington. But the reason I liked the movie was the subtle but powerful story of a daughter trying to come to terms with her father in...more

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Jan 13, 2009 Najibah rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-2009, in-current-library, china

I love the characters and stories - especially the boy who looked like Mao and Lao Da who killed the county officials and their family members because his son died / murdered without getting any justice. The characters are all memorable in their own way, their stories linger in my head and eyes long after I finished reading them. I like the way Yiyun Li bring her characters to face each other with their different views on life and culture, and how she portrays generation and cultural gaps betwee...more

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Feb 17, 2012 Nick D rated it 3 of 5 stars

Yiyun Li's fiction thrives in the dislocation that occurs as the modern China of mobility (at least for the educated and wealthy) replaces older Chinas (without the slightest hint that older was in any way better). It is a China of gay sons and day traders, of emigrants and gun massacres. Above all, it is a China in which family collapses under the pressure of the modern--the woman taken to an abortion by the lover of the gay man who impregnated her, the famous Mao impersonator cast adrift in th...more

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Jul 25, 2011 Vanessa Wu added it

I am very interested in the life of the woman who wrote these stories. There is no doubt that they are a first rate contribution to world literature. They are serious, controlled, thoughtful and deeply felt. But I hate reading them. They are like a bitter pill to me and I don't want to take it. There is a China that is not shown here. You might think that this other China doesn't exist, could never exist. Yiyun Li doesn't want these stories to be published in China. Perhaps it's because the Chin...more

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May 13, 2012 Alexis Lee rated it 5 of 5 stars

I had to read this book for literature class, and I don't regret it a single bit - I wouldn't have tried Li Yiyun's works otherwise.
It was dreamlike, intense - wonderful - to see the culture that I have grown up with immortalized in short stories of this caliber. Li delivers stunning insights and feelings that I can empathize with, which makes the read all the better. Her metaphors and vivid descriptions were so very real. Reading the book was an experience in itself, and I felt very disjointed...more

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Feb 11, 2013 Ron Davidson rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

If you are looking for a nice, light cheerful read, this book isn't for you. A collection of short stories by a Chines-American author, the book is loaded with the fatalism and angst that seems to be common in Chinese literature. While some of the stories can be moving (e.g., Extra, the tale of a poor, unmarried middle-aged woman who lives with hard luck), it is hard to feel sympathetic toward most of the characters; pity, perhaps. Presumably, this was the author's intention, so in this sense, i...more

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Mar 22, 2012 Neleh rated it 5 of 5 stars

Short stories are a special craft of their own, and about a third of the stories in this volume are masterpieces to me.
I've heard from some that Li's writing is "too depressing" but well really, such is life. Realism has a price. It reminds me of how a friend complained about the tragic unhappy ending to the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. I thought that was hilarious since in the Chinese view- if its real love then simeone's got to suffer & sacrifice. Happy endings are trite & sup...more

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Dec 11, 2010 Alexis rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010

I've been reading references and recoomendations bout Yiyun Li's work this year, and I'm so glad that I finally picked up one of her books. This collection of short stories was well crafted and very interesting. Most of the stories dealt with relaitonships abbetween men and women and families. The stories were good and there was a lot about Chinese culture and history, so much that I felt like I was learning cultural facts while I was reading.

This was her first collection of short stories, and I...more

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Feb 05, 2009 Bookmarks Magazine added it · review of another edition

With a Plimpton Prize and publications in the New Yorker and Paris Review, Li has found her natural medium: writing stories in her nonnative English. Her language is simple and graceful, her observations of modern life penetrating and moving. In her book debut, she has rendered, with freshness, the rich tapestry of global Chinese life in all its complexity, angst, and comfort.

This is an excerpt from a review published in Bookmarks magazine.

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Oct 14, 2012 Alberto Zanonato rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

"In Cina diciamo, xiū bǎishì kě tóngzhōu 修百世可同舟. Ci vogliono trecento anni di preghiere per attraversare un fiume sulla stessa barca di un'altra persona. C'è un motivo per ogni rapporto umano, questo è il significato del proverbio. Ci vogliono tremila anni di preghiere per poggiare la tua testa sul cuscino accanto a quella della persona che ami. Per un padre e una figlia? Mille anni, forse."

YiYun Li è maestra nel presentare spaccati della vita quotidiana in una Cina a metà tra occidentalizzazion...more

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Feb 11, 2012 Julka rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 52-books-2012, people-stories

Tysiąc lat dobrych modlitw to zbiór opowiadań, których akcja dzieje się w Chinach w czasach ostatnich przemian. Jeżeli ktoś lubi wesołe historie może sobie śmiało odpuścić Tysiąc lat. Jest takie przysłowie chińskie zacytowane w jednym z opowiadań: "Zły los zawsze wybiera dobrego człowieka". I tak jest też w tych opowiadaniach. Przyznam, że nie wszystkie brzmią dla mnie wiarygodnie. Na przykład w scenie, gdzie Sansan nacina nożem ramię żebraka. Miała to być wzniosła scena, ale autorka trochę prze...more Tysiąc lat dobrych modlitw to zbiór opowiadań, których akcja dzieje się w Chinach w czasach ostatnich przemian. Jeżeli ktoś lubi wesołe historie może sobie śmiało odpuścić Tysiąc lat. Jest takie przysłowie chińskie zacytowane w jednym z opowiadań: "Zły los zawsze wybiera dobrego człowieka". I tak jest też w tych opowiadaniach. Przyznam, że nie wszystkie brzmią dla mnie wiarygodnie. Na przykład w scenie, gdzie Sansan nacina nożem ramię żebraka. Miała to być wzniosła scena, ale autorka trochę przesadziła. Cienka linia dzieli patos od śmieszności. Najgorzej, moim zdaniem, wypadły sceny, w których narratorem jest cała społeczność. Jak dla mnie to brzmi trochę sztucznie. Ale jest też kilka świetnych. W Śmierć to niezły żart, jeśli się go dobrze opowie narratorką jest mała dziewczynka, która przyjeżdża na wakacje do swojej byłej niani. Obserwuje małżeństwo cioci, sąsiadów i wyciąga wnioski. Chyba najbardziej lubię takie właśnie opisy małych społeczności, małe ludzkie dramaty, codzienne zmaganie z życiem. Po życiu to z kolei historia dwóch małżeństw. Każde z nich zmaga się w zasadzie z tym samym problemem brakiem miłości, lub nieumiejętnością jej wyrażania. Ten motyw pojawia się zresztą też w innych opowiadaniach.

"Kobieta bierze od życia, cokolwiek jej ono daje, i pielęgnuje ten dar, jak tylko potrafi. Tymczasem mężczyzna ugania się za czymś lepszym, a zarazem mniej doskonałym".
Spodobały mi się też dwa porównania:
o rozwodzie "łódź, która wpadał na podwodną rafę",
o miłości na jedną noc "małżeństwo jak rosa do wschodu słońca".

Miłość córka do matki jest w tych opowiadaniach często kaleka. Można to tłumaczyć na kilka sposób. Winna jest może temu ideologia komunistyczna z całym jej system rozbijania rodzin, ale chyba bardziej tradycyjny sposób wychowania dziewczynek, wpajanie, że są mniej warte od synów.

Dziecięca piosenka: "Zaśpiewam wam pieśń o partii komunistów. Bardziej oddana niż matce jej być muszę, bo matka dała mi tylko ciało, a partia - duszę".
Wypowiedź chłopów: "Kręciliśmy głowami na myśl o trzech córkach[...] Wysłano je do sierocińców[...] Lao Da powinien był nas posłuchać, kiedy mu radziliśmy, żeby je utopił zaraz po urodzeniu. Oszczędziłby im wiele bólu".(less)

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Oct 28, 2011 Eveline Chao rated it 4 of 5 stars

I read this a good 6 months ago so it's hard to remember what I thought. I do recall that the first story, about an old woman's relationship with a young boy, moved me to tears, and there were a few other stories I really liked and which were quite moving and/or clever, especially this one about a boy who looks just like Chairman Mao. There were also stories that were boring and willfully depressing. I mean, all the stories are depressing, and my tastes in fact run a little to the downbeat so th...more

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Sep 18, 2011 Ernest Junius rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-that-took-overnight-to-finish, melancholy-and-all-emotional, owned, tragedy, relaxing-reads

All in the same theme, Yiyun Li's stories are all about (pretty much) Chinese people who try to run away (to the States). Very interesting descriptions and prose style; Li's words are heavily coloured by the vibrant colours of China revolution. She summons Mao a lot in her book, also famous Chinese proverbs, and the less famous one and the more obscure too. These are quite refreshing to me, as this book is the first book from a Chinese author I've ever read.

I noted too, a few other interesting p...more

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Nov 10, 2008 Milan/zzz rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2008, asia, awarded

I finished this book and I have mixed feelings. Not because the stories are bad. On the contrary, they are quite good. What bothered me is that almost aggressive anti-communistic attitude. There is one sentence where old Iranian woman says "I love China. China a good country, very old" and that would be pretty much everything said positive about China (and that comes from the mouth of Iranian women who never visited the country she's talking about!).

I don't have doubts that communism in China wa...more I finished this book and I have mixed feelings. Not because the stories are bad. On the contrary, they are quite good. What bothered me is that almost aggressive anti-communistic attitude. There is one sentence where old Iranian woman says "I love China. China a good country, very old" and that would be pretty much everything said positive about China (and that comes from the mouth of Iranian women who never visited the country she's talking about!).

I don't have doubts that communism in China was quite different than communism in ex Yugoslavia (where I grow up) and therefore all those rigidness Yiyun Li is talking about is unfamiliar for me. Indeed here there were blindness as well and rigidness and it possibly was dangerous to criticize regime but it was nothing like it has been described in this book.

I just couldn't get rid of the thoughts that author is living in USA is publishing book (which probably is in high percentage truth. An awful truth!) where is criticizing horribly something about huge majority of Americans (or Western world in general) don't have a clue but they "know" it's VERY bad; book about the country not very popular in USA; book with lot black/white comparison between China and America (of course China is always and only black while America is promised land and everything about it is absolutely fantastic). She used the language and topic that will find very fertile soil in America. She described China as a hell from which every thinking Chinese want to leave. Again that might be truth but there must be something good there; or at least some respect about the heritage the ones who fled in America brought with themselves. But then, she's not mentioning that. And that thought has had big influence in my general opinion about the book.

As I said the stories are very good but if I'm an immigrant and a writer I doubt I'd be able to write this type of book about my mother land. maybe that's not something I should be proud of but I simply couldn't neglect part I love.(less)

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Nov 19, 2008 Theophilus (Theo) rated it 5 of 5 stars

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers = many hours of good reading. What happened to the "common people" after the cultural revolution in China. Yiyun Li tells individual stories that are as different from each other as the individual characters themselves, but are connected by a common struggle for survival within a system that seems to evolved into an uncontrolled monster. Many of the character's problems will seem familiar to economically depressed people in any country, but attempts have been mad...more

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Aug 15, 2009 Debbie Kennedy rated it 5 of 5 stars

Terrific short stories...dealing with a rich culture and the changes that individuals endure. My personal favorite, if I had to choose would be the one which bears the same name as the title of the collection. It is told from the point of view of an elderly Chinese father who visits his estranged and aloof daughter in the states. But then I also loved Extra about a devoted and dedicated grandmother. And the Princess of Nebraska...and well it is worth reading again and again.

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Oct 09, 2010 Linda Robinson rated it 5 of 5 stars

The stories gift the reader with a sense of China by delivering intimate tales of its people. A young writer who can write of sons and daughters disparaging their elders, and not make me mad as an elder, has me thoroughly engaged in the story, and that's Yiyun Li's brilliance. Calm visualization, eerily wise prose, and stories that linger. Moral dilemmas, personal tragedies, and a ruthless regime are the water on the paper, and the inner resources the characters call upon flow like color from Li...more

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Dec 01, 2008 Pa rated it 4 of 5 stars

An excellent collection of short stories by a Chinese writer who came to the US when she was 21; Li stumbled into writing while she was doing a PH.D. in biology or something at Iowa. What a story! She reminds me a little of Ha Jin -- their writing is simple, spare one might say but at times quite beautiful and most important of all they have unique, interesting stories (mostly about China) to share with American and English speaking readers.

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Oct 15, 2010 Li Wu rated it 3 of 5 stars

There are many insights into people's lives/thoughts/dreams during the dark times in China through these short stories. This quote from the title story has stuck with me for days: "Baba, if you grew up in a language that you never used to express your feelings, it would be easier to take up another language and talk more in the new language. It makes you a new person." I still find it difficult and unnatural to say "I love you" in Chinese...

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Apr 28, 2011 Jodi rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: short-stories, china

This is a book of short stories, most of which are placed in China with a few about Chinese immigrants that are in the US. The reason I was disappointed is that the quality of the stories is amazingly inconsistent. Some of them, like the one the book is titled after, are really good, while others were poorly written and/or absolutely bored me to death. Such a shame because I think this writer is good, but just needs better editing.

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Nov 01, 2011 Richie Loria rated it 4 of 5 stars

Holy shit this was good, and I'm not saying that b/c I'm in China assholes. She won the 2005 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and her second collection Gold Boy, Emerald Girl was shortlisted for the same award. Her debut novel The Vagrants was shortlisted for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
She was named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow. I realize I just copied that from wikipedia but who cares. This was without question one of the best SS anthologies I've opened.

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Aug 31, 2011 Patrick Karamazov rated it 3 of 5 stars

Even though this book is pretty short, and it's all short stories, it took me a really long time to read it. It wasn't because the stories were poorly written, it was mostly because they're all extremely sad. It seems like they're all about bitter divorces, lifetimes of unrequited loves, or self-castration.

Mostly this book reinforced my long standing belief that I will never understand Chinese people.

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Dec 19, 2010 Libby rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2010, realistic-fiction

I really enjoyed this book. Yiyun Li's imaginative short stories can be devoured in one sitting or savoured, but I couldn't resist turning each page waiting for the next great character or fascinating plot. She has a lovely way with words, but I found the stories quite depressing in parts and there were other areas I skimmed over because I found it just too negative.
However I would really recommend it.

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Apr 16, 2012 Nezzo rated it 4 of 5 stars

Дълго време се чудих колко звезди заслужава тази книга. Не са пет, сякаш не са и четири. Но прозата на Июн Ли си я бива, колкото и да е кратка, неподредена и обичайна за Азия. И дори за човек като мен, който не си пада по книги пълни с орязана проза в тази има нещо, което е интересно и подхранващо вкуса към източните култури. Които така или иначе не са лесни за разбиране в простичкият си живот обременен от толкова много политика, правила и разочаровани малки хора.

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Dec 21, 2008 Amy rated it 4 of 5 stars

oh my. at first i did not like this book at all. like at all. but somewhere towards the end of the first short story i found myself completely impressed. "immortality"--a story about eunuchs and a boy born with the dictator's face--is devastating and gorgeous. there's a lot of myth-making in this book, but it's done in an extremely skillful way that made me want to go on the ride.

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Jan 08, 2011 Susan Pearce rated it 5 of 5 stars

I think this book is remarkable for the number of rules Li has broken while writing fantastic stories. I'm thinking particularly of the amount of passive exposition in some of the stories; but despite this weight of overt writerly involvement, they work because so much of the drama is immediate, and because you get the sense that, as with Lahiri, Li knows these characters inside out. My two favourite stories from this collection are Immortality and the title story, probably because they take mor...more

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Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing, China and moved to the United States in 1996. She received an MFA from Iowa Writers' Workshop and an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. Her stories and essays have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review,and elsewhere. She has received a Whiting Writers' Award and was awarded a Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa, TX. Her debut...more

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