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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li (Hardcover, 2006)

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Brilliant and original, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers introduces a remarkable first collection of stories about China from an author set to be a major literary talent. In this extraordinary first collection, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and guilt. In 'Immortality', winner of the Paris Review prize, a young man bears a striking resemblance to the dictator, and so finds a strange kind of calling. In 'Extra', first published in the New Yorker, a Chinese woman, alone in middle age, befriends a young boy who has become an outcast in a remote country school. In their friendship, we see how love can begin to overcome the strictures that dominate their lives. In turn horrifying and breathtakingly lyrical, Yiyun Li, a new and talented young Chinese writer, confronts the silence that dominated the history of her country, and illuminates how mythology, politics, history and culture intersect with personality. She leaves us with an enduring vision of a country undergoing tremendous change.

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PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-139780007196623
eBay Product ID (ePID)91789377

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Book TitleA Thousand Years of Good Prayers
AuthorYiyun Li
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicShort Stories
Publication Year2006
Number of Pages224 Pages

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Item Height203mm
Item Width136mm
Item Weight291g

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Title_AuthorYiyun Li
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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