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.
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.
發表於2024-03-28
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同樣是呈現母子見的對話,我開始以為它會像龍應颱的《親愛的安德烈》一樣,在對世界真相的探討中給讀者展現親子之間試圖消除年代隔閡與文化差異的努力。可是<Where Reasons End>的對話走嚮卻跟設想中完全不一樣,因為想對話的另一方早已捨棄這個世界,將的生命句號畫在瞭...
評分Where reasons end是Yiyun Li在十六歲的大兒子毫無徵兆地自殺後寫作的,寫的是一個母親和死去的兒子Nicolai的對話,在一個沒有時間沒有視覺僅有聲音的地方 Yiyun Li另有一本迴憶錄叫Dear Friend, from my life I write to you in your life: 她這樣解釋這個題目: The books on...
評分This is an unconventional book about lost and grief. A imaginative conversation between a mother and her teenage son who took his own life. Nicolai is dead yet it seems so real to me that he's there. Yiyun's writing connects them together without any cliche...
評分Where reasons end是Yiyun Li在十六歲的大兒子毫無徵兆地自殺後寫作的,寫的是一個母親和死去的兒子Nicolai的對話,在一個沒有時間沒有視覺僅有聲音的地方 Yiyun Li另有一本迴憶錄叫Dear Friend, from my life I write to you in your life: 她這樣解釋這個題目: The books on...
圖書標籤: 李翊雲 美國 小說 文學 Yiyun-Li 長篇小說 英文原版 死亡
太心酸瞭????
評分纔疏學淺的我也是在讀完這本書後纔第一次知道,原來寫作對於作傢來說還可以起到充當“靈媒”角色的作用。這本書讀起來像是治療和二次傷害的矛盾結閤體,我讀完真是心情鬱結(我不敢說我完全讀懂瞭,以後會再讀)。
評分邊讀邊嘆氣 太私人瞭幾乎無法更說更多瞭
評分"Where else can we meet but in stories now?" 讀完長嘆一口氣。李是很聰明的作傢,用詞簡潔但講究。這書寫作傢母親在一個名為nowhere的空間裏與自殺的兒子相遇,由此展開的一係列對話——母親會的和能夠使用的隻有文字,於是母子隻能在文字的空間裏重逢,但因這空間是她構築的,某種意義上來說對話又可能是自身互搏(母親幾乎說什麼都會遭兒子反駁)。紙頁間滿是犀利的箴言金句,而這是提純過的現實——母子的對話幾乎全圍繞著抽象的語法與事物——迴到現實中一切不可能如此簡潔、工整、優雅。寫suffering和perfection的幾段讓人心中有鈍鈍的痛感。這應該算李的autofiction,感覺她是非常不放過自己的那類人。希望她獲得理解,不論從自己身上,還是從他人身上。
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