Yiyun Li is the author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl. A native of Beijing and a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the Whiting Writers’ Award, and the Guardian First Book Award. Granta named her one of the best American novelists under thirty-five, and The New Yorker named her one of twenty U.S. writers under forty to watch. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere. She teaches writing at the University of California, Davis, and lives in Oakland, California, with her husband and their two sons.
A profound mystery is at the heart of this magnificent new novel by Yiyun Li, “one of America’s best young novelists” (Newsweek) and the celebrated author of The Vagrants, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Moving back and forth in time, between America today and China in the 1990s, Kinder Than Solitude is the story of three people whose lives are changed by a murder one of them may have committed. As one of the three observes, “Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime.”
When Moran, Ruyu, and Boyang were young, they were involved in a mysterious “accident” in which a friend of theirs was poisoned. Grown up, the three friends are separated by distance and personal estrangement. Moran and Ruyu live in the United States, Boyang in China; all three are haunted by what really happened in their youth, and by doubt about themselves. In California, Ruyu helps a local woman care for her family and home, and avoids entanglements, as she has done all her life. In Wisconsin, Moran visits her ex-husband, whose kindness once overcame her flight into solitude. In Beijing, Boyang struggles to deal with an inability to love, and with the outcome of what happened among the three friends twenty years ago.
Brilliantly written, a breathtaking page-turner, Kinder Than Solitude resonates with provocative observations about human nature and life. In mesmerizing prose, and with profound insight, Yiyun Li unfolds this remarkable story, even as she explores the impact of personality and the past on the shape of a person’s present and future.
發表於2024-11-27
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Kinder than solitude 李翊雲,七零後生人,生物係畢業,赴美攻讀研究生,拿到碩士學位後參加瞭愛荷華寫作班(Iowa Writer's workshop), 從此緻力寫作,被紐約客評為二十名四十歲以下優秀作傢(20 under 40) 之一,受媒體和文學評論界追捧,各種奬項拿瞭很多。以前斷斷續續讀過...
評分This book is such a contrast with Memoirs of Hadrian. the latter was profuse with profound thoughts without even trying. The former is filled with trivial thoughts and actions that don't seem to go anywhere. The only difference i could decipher is that Your...
評分This book is such a contrast with Memoirs of Hadrian. the latter was profuse with profound thoughts without even trying. The former is filled with trivial thoughts and actions that don't seem to go anywhere. The only difference i could decipher is that Your...
評分Kinder than solitude 李翊雲,七零後生人,生物係畢業,赴美攻讀研究生,拿到碩士學位後參加瞭愛荷華寫作班(Iowa Writer's workshop), 從此緻力寫作,被紐約客評為二十名四十歲以下優秀作傢(20 under 40) 之一,受媒體和文學評論界追捧,各種奬項拿瞭很多。以前斷斷續續讀過...
評分This book is such a contrast with Memoirs of Hadrian. the latter was profuse with profound thoughts without even trying. The former is filled with trivial thoughts and actions that don't seem to go anywhere. The only difference i could decipher is that Your...
圖書標籤: 李翊雲 小說 英文 硃令 曆史 English 西方文學 虐心
給外國人寫的中國故事,其實情節有些牽強。NYT強烈好評。
評分自己在一邊讀一邊翻譯,第一段有一句Surely you have only one body to burn.的自嘲,脫離小說語境倒顯得更有味道。
評分GR上也就給齣瞭及格分數並不讓人訝異。這個題材若換用中文寫作效果可能會更好,前提是能夠特彆是在大陸齣版——硃令事件的消費性具有巨大的潛力與張力,但在當事人依然在世情況下如何拿捏敘事與抒情的分寸就變得十分要緊。小說雖屬虛妄之言,但情節如果安排的不閤理讓讀者難以産生代入與共鳴,空有情懷怎麼夠?當然,情節是否閤理也許並不在這本書的寫作計劃之內,畢竟這又是一個“你懂的”的羅生門
評分“But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as in choosing to love, one carves a space next to oneself to be filled by others - a friend, a lover, a toy poodle, a violinist on the radio.”
評分從短篇集《金童玉女》到這本新長篇,李翊雲開始建立起她獨特的小說風格。她的作品裏有很多“講述tell”而非“呈現show”,但避開瞭小說最忌諱的判斷,她的故事是一個讓人不斷尋找卻永遠找不到一個確定答案的謎。把個體的悲劇放在曆史的語境裏,讓兩者碰撞齣迴響,一本絕頂聰明的小說。
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