Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing, China and moved to the United States in 1996. She received an MFA from Iowa Writers' Workshop and an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. Her stories and essays have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review,and elsewhere. She has received a Whiting Writers' Award and was awarded a Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa, TX. Her debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, Guardian First Book Award, and California Book Award for first fiction. She was recently selected as one of Granta's 21 Best of Young American Novelists. She lives in Oakland, California with her husband and their two sons, and teaches at University of California, Davis.
发表于2024-12-22
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也是前不久才知道这个人。居然是在时尚杂志Elle上看到的,颇为有趣。后来在M dong家的期末饭局上提起用英语写作的born-in-mainland,我们说起除了哈金,就是这个Yiyun Li. 我看书有个毛病,就是先会去网上做所谓的homework。查查这个人的背景,搜搜书评什么的,否则不敢贸然浪...
评分 评分 评分(标题是解释《千年敬祈a thousand years of good prayers》的含义。与正文内容无关。起标题神马的最讨厌了。) 阅读李翊云的这本处女作,最亲切之处永远是那些译用了中国成语谚语歌谣的地方:如鲠在喉、如履薄冰、买椟还珠的故事、“人要脸树要皮”、“一二三四五,上山打老虎...
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...
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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.
"a foreign country gives one foreign thoughts"; meanwhile, a foreign language helps one to express what s/he fails to say in the language s/he was brought up with.
评分简单通俗的文字也可以写得有滋有味。
评分其中一篇短小说改编拍成了电影,阴鸷压抑的调调。类似喜福会。俞鸿飞演了一个说不同语言展示不同性格的美国华人。里面有一段对白,大意是,如果你的母语环境中你没有学会如何表达情感,那么当你学会了另一种语言的时候,你会更愿意用它来抒发情怀。
评分3.5-4星之间吧。第一次打这么模糊的分数主要是因为这个集子处理中国历史上政治议题的方式(自干五们绝对不要看这本书)。如同豆瓣上一篇评论所讲,写不写政治不是关键,关键在于在一篇小说里的组成是否自然恰当,是不是一个有机的部分,推动人物情节自然地发展。从整体来看,我觉得反而是那些直接涉及政治题材较少的小说更微妙,比如“After a Life""The Princess of Nebraska",普通人在时代背景里的无力感更动人;相反像"Persimmons"这篇,虽然巧妙地用了“捏软柿子”这样的俗语发挥,太过直接地抨击社会不公苍天无眼显得很生硬幼稚。我觉得这种极具政治隐喻的篇目中写得比较好地算是"Immotality"这一篇,胆子够大,读起来既觉得怪又觉得妙,还给以人一种越轨的刺激感!
评分简单通俗的文字也可以写得有滋有味。
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