Where Reasons End

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.

出版者:Random House

作者:Yiyun Li

页数:192

出版时间:2019-2-5

价格:USD 25.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781984817372

图书标签:李翊云美国小说文学Yiyun-Li长篇小说英文原版死亡

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A brilliant writer imagines a fictional conversation between a mother and the teenage son she lost to suicide. Yiyun Li confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and love.

The narrator writes, "I had but one delusion, which I held onto with all my willpower: we once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I'm doing it over again, this time by words."

Written in the months after the author lost a child to suicide and composed as a story cycle, this conversation between mother and child unfolds in a timeless world. Deeply intimate, poignant, and moving, these conversations portray the love and complexity in a relationship across generations, even as they capture the pain of sadness, longing, and loss.

In writing this book, Yiyun Li was inspired by a line from Proust's Remembrance of Things Past "Ideas come to us as the successors to griefs, and griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some part of their power to injure the heart; the transformation itself, even, for an instant, releases suddenly a little joy."

Meeting life's deepest sorrow with originality, precision and poise, Where Reasons End is suffused with intimacy, inescapable pain, and fierce love.

读后感

同样是呈现母子见的对话，我开始以为它会像龙应台的《亲爱的安德烈》一样，在对世界真相的探讨中给读者展现亲子之间试图消除年代隔阂与文化差异的努力。可是<Where Reasons End>的对话走向却跟设想中完全不一样，因为想对话的另一方早已舍弃这个世界，将的生命句号画在了...  

Where reasons end是Yiyun Li在十六岁的大儿子毫无征兆地自杀后写作的，写的是一个母亲和死去的儿子Nicolai的对话，在一个没有时间没有视觉仅有声音的地方 Yiyun Li另有一本回忆录叫Dear Friend, from my life I write to you in your life: 她这样解释这个题目： The books on...  

Where reasons end是Yiyun Li在十六岁的大儿子毫无征兆地自杀后写作的，写的是一个母亲和死去的儿子Nicolai的对话，在一个没有时间没有视觉仅有声音的地方 Yiyun Li另有一本回忆录叫Dear Friend, from my life I write to you in your life: 她这样解释这个题目： The books on...  

用户评价

太致郁了

非常私人的对于儿子去世的grief（这种悲痛甚至超越了grief吧）的描述；通过和儿子的对话，关于措辞和语言的些许诡辩，从而让读者了解到作为妈妈的心情。（今年怎么读了这么多关于失去孩子的书？？？）

你们疯了

你们疯了

Words fall short, but sometimes their shadows can reach the unspeakable.