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 fast-food restaurant in Chicago, to the barren expanse of Inner Mongolia, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers reveals worlds both foreign and familiar, with heartbreaking honesty and in beautiful prose.
“Immortality,” winner of The Paris Review’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 “The Princess of Nebraska,” 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.
“After a Life” illuminates the vagaries of marriage, parenthood, and gender, unfolding the story of a couple who keep a daughter hidden from the world. And in “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers,” 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.
These and other daring stories form a mesmerizing tapestry of revelatory fiction by an unforgettable writer.
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最开始接触李翊云并不是因为这本书，而是她的那本回忆录《Dear Friend, From My Life I Write Into Your Life》。那本书我读起来觉得像是另一个我在表达，heart-breaking, bleak, stiff, holding back but emotional underneath. 更多的关于那本书的评价我打算看完以后再写。总...
评分There is a perception that the intension of some Asian-American writers' writing is to satisfy the western readers' curiosity towards China. Therefore, the common theme of this kind of works is to show the "dark" said of China, for example, the untolerant p...
评分There're so many reviews on Amazon.com which discuss the political aspects of the novel. But what I see the most is the author's attitudes to society, humanity and most essentially, love and marriage hidden behind her subtle and elegant lines. If you have r...
评分 评分从图书馆借了这本书，因为作者有许多我熟悉的背景，至少可以了解，她对这个城市的看法，我当时想。显然，在小说里，我没有得到任何她对这个城市的直接的印象，但我看到一些别的。尽管只是一个短篇小说集，借了又续，懒散的我还是没把它看完。但我想先就我看完的发表一些观感。...
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写什么比怎么写更重要
评分中国人当真这么逆来顺受吗？还是作者臆想的民族性？
评分李翊云第一次写小说，是用英语。她是中国人，1973年生，北大生物系毕业后到美国留学。她说：英语给她表达的自由。 在书虫看到她，非常欣赏。那种淳朴诚实的气质，和她自己喜欢的小说的“villageness"的风格，倒是相承。会场上，她不知说了几次抱歉不了解，不知道，所以回答不了你的问题。啊，我有多久没有见过这样的“自然”人。 中国作家里她喜欢沈从文和老舍。外国则是她一再提及的爱尔兰作家William Trevor，后者小说的人物身上便有她为之着迷的villageness。
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评分不解的是她在迎合还是纯粹自我分裂
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