Yiyun Li

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is the debut story collection by Yiyun Li. It received the 2005 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the 2006 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, Guardian First Book Award, Whiting Writers' Award and California Book Award for first fiction. Two of the stories were adapted into …

A luminous memoir from the award-winning author of The Vagrants and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers 'What a long way it is from one life to another. Yet why write if not for that distance?'Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this is a memoir of a life lived with books. Written over two years while the …

In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li, a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner, a MacArthur Fellow, and one of The New Yorker’s top 20 fiction writers under 40, gives us exquisite stories in which politics and folklore magnificently illuminate the human condition. A professor introduces her middle-aged son to a …

'A dazzling, subtle, skilful knockout – I loved it' Charlotte Mendelson ‘One of our finest living authors ... propulsively entertaining’ New York Times ‘Wonderfully strange and alive’ Jon McGregor A propulsive, seductive new novel about friendship, exploitation and intimacy from the prize-winning author of Where …

À l'aube du 19 mars 1979, la petite ville de Rivière-Fangeuse est en ébullition : après dix ans de prison, Gu Shan, une ancienne garde rouge, va être exécutée. Son crime ? Avoir douté du parti. Et la mort n'est pas le pire de ce qu'elle va devoir subir. Cet événement va avoir des répercussions sur ses concitoyens : le …