false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173164973m/253860.jpg 253860 4 Brilliant and original, <b>A Thousand Years of Good Prayers</b> 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 fast-food restaurant in Chicago, to the barren expanse of Inner Mongolia, <b>A Thousand Years of Good Prayers</b> reveals worlds both foreign and familiar, with heartbreaking honesty and in beautiful prose.<br><br>&#8220;Immortality,&#8221; winner of The Paris Review&#8217;s Plimpton Prize for new writers, tells the story of a young man who bears a striking resemblance to a dictator and so finds a calling to immortality. In &#8220;The Princess of Nebraska,&#8221; a man and a woman who were both in love with a young actor in China meet again in America and try to reconcile the lost love with their new lives. <br><br>&#8220;After a Life&#8221; illuminates the vagaries of marriage, parenthood, and gender, unfolding the story of a couple who keep a daughter hidden from the world. And in &#8220;A Thousand Years of Good Prayers,&#8221; in which a man visits America for the first time to see his recently divorced daughter, only to discover that all is not as it seems, Li boldly explores the effects of communism on language, faith, and an entire people, underlining transformation in its many meanings and incarnations.<br><br>These and other daring stories form a mesmerizing tapestry of revelatory fiction by an unforgettable writer.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i> 905799 12 9 2006 A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories total:288|5:79|4:121|3:65|2:19|1:4| 288 1116 470 74 2 1 false false Sun Mar 08 17:00:13 -0700 2009 Sun Jan 25 11:46:16 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 08 17:00:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 04:27:34 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 03:14:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 07:03:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 16:43:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 14:36:07 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 15:16:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:36:42 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:36:42 -0800 2009 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 ...

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