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.
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.
發表於2025-03-03
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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...
評分從圖書館藉瞭這本書,因為作者有許多我熟悉的背景,至少可以瞭解,她對這個城市的看法,我當時想。顯然,在小說裏,我沒有得到任何她對這個城市的直接的印象,但我看到一些彆的。盡管隻是一個短篇小說集,藉瞭又續,懶散的我還是沒把它看完。但我想先就我看完的發錶一些觀感。...
評分最開始接觸李翊雲並不是因為這本書,而是她的那本迴憶錄《Dear Friend, From My Life I Write Into Your Life》。那本書我讀起來覺得像是另一個我在錶達,heart-breaking, bleak, stiff, holding back but emotional underneath. 更多的關於那本書的評價我打算看完以後再寫。總...
評分 評分從圖書館藉瞭這本書,因為作者有許多我熟悉的背景,至少可以瞭解,她對這個城市的看法,我當時想。顯然,在小說裏,我沒有得到任何她對這個城市的直接的印象,但我看到一些彆的。盡管隻是一個短篇小說集,藉瞭又續,懶散的我還是沒把它看完。但我想先就我看完的發錶一些觀感。...
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Love Yiyun's language, it flows like water. Her stories are sometimes placid and bit too serene, but the feelings are real and tender. I shiver at some of the images in her collection. Favorite story so far: Love in the Market Place
評分簡單通俗的文字也可以寫得有滋有味。
評分其中一篇短小說改編拍成瞭電影,陰鷙壓抑的調調。類似喜福會。俞鴻飛演瞭一個說不同語言展示不同性格的美國華人。裏麵有一段對白,大意是,如果你的母語環境中你沒有學會如何錶達情感,那麼當你學會瞭另一種語言的時候,你會更願意用它來抒發情懷。
評分"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.
評分其中一篇短小說改編拍成瞭電影,陰鷙壓抑的調調。類似喜福會。俞鴻飛演瞭一個說不同語言展示不同性格的美國華人。裏麵有一段對白,大意是,如果你的母語環境中你沒有學會如何錶達情感,那麼當你學會瞭另一種語言的時候,你會更願意用它來抒發情懷。
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載