A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

出版者:Random House

作者:Yiyun Li

页数:224

出版时间:2005-9-20

价格:USD 21.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781400063123

图书标签:李翊云短篇小说美国华人小说YiyunLi短篇文学英文

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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.

读后感

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。...  

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...  

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...  

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...  

用户评价

#3-4 stars. Def overrated.

我一直佩服用英文写作的中国作者。她的故事充满了有故事的人，小说读完了，会给人留有想象空间。故事无关宏大历史的背景，但是你在她故事中读得出时代感。

我一直佩服用英文写作的中国作者。她的故事充满了有故事的人，小说读完了，会给人留有想象空间。故事无关宏大历史的背景，但是你在她故事中读得出时代感。

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我一直佩服用英文写作的中国作者。她的故事充满了有故事的人，小说读完了，会给人留有想象空间。故事无关宏大历史的背景，但是你在她故事中读得出时代感。