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Yiyun Li
A dazzling new collection of short stories, spanning 15 years of writing, from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The Book of Goose and Where Reasons End
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A propulsive, gripping new novel about fate, art, exploitation, and intimacy from the award-winning author of Where Reasons End
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'Any new book by Yiyun Li is a cause for celebration' Sigrid Nunez 'One of our finest living authors' New York Times
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A devastating and utterly original portrait of motherhood and grief
‘Days- the easiest possession. The days he had refused would come, one at a time. They would wait, every daybreak…
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'One of our finest living authors ... propulsively entertaining' New York Times 'Sly, profound ... Electrifying' Observer 'Wonderfully strange and alive' Jon McGregor
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Written over two years while the author battled depression, in and out of hospital, Dear Friend is a painful and yet richly affirming examination of what makes life worth living…
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Richly expansive and deeply moving, an intimate novel of secret lives and painful histories from the critically acclaimed author of Where Reasons End
A propulsive, gripping new novel about fate, art, exploitation, and intimacy by the award-winning author of Where Reasons End.
"A new collection-about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life-by the award-winning and inimitable author of The Book of Goose"--
Bette Howland
Bette Howland’s illuminating and bracing account of life in a psych ward, which marked her powerful entrance onto the literary scene, now with an introduction by Yiyun Li, author of…
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Lilia Liska is eighty-one. She has shrewdly…
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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 become a major literary talent.
The much-anticipated first novel from the Guardian First Book Award-winning Chinese writer.
A fearless writer confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and love, a masterpiece by a master (Elizabeth McCracken, Vanity Fair).
Li has converted…
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Michel de Montaigne
A selection of Michel de Montaigne's most profound, searching essays, in a new translation and stunning hardback edition
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Yiyun Li’s Immortality, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
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Yiyun Li,A Public Space
A collective 85 day journey of reading with contributors from around the globe.
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Tom Drury,Yiyun Li
One of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists returns to the American Midwest with a powerful and often funny chronicle of one October weekend in the lives of a precarious family.
First published by The Viking Press, 1974 –Title page verso.
Lu Xun
Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature. This book presents translations of…
