Yiyun Li: 10 books

Book cover of Kinder Than Solitude
by Yiyun Li
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014

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,...
Book cover of Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
by Yiyun Li
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017

In her first memoir, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li offers a journey of recovery through literature: a letter from a writer to like-minded readers. “A meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life.”—Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead “What a long way it...
Book cover of The Vagrants

The Vagrants

A Novel

by Yiyun Li
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009

In luminous prose, award-winning author Yiyun Li weaves together the lives of unforgettable characters who are forced to make moral choices, and choices for survival, in China in the late 1970s. Shortlisted for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Morning dawns on the provincial...
Book cover of Where Reasons End
by Yiyun Li
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019

A fearless writer confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and love, "a masterpiece by a master” (Elizabeth McCracken, Vanity Fair). "Li has converted the messy and devastating stuff of life into a remarkable work of art.”—The Wall Street...
Book cover of Un millier d'années de bonnes prières
by Yiyun LI
Language: French
Release Date: May 5, 2011

Le livre qui a révélé Yiyun Li sur la scène littéraire internationale et qui lui a valu de nombreux prix, dont le Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award et le Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Portées par une extraordinaire finesse d'observation et une bouleversante empathie, dix histoires...
Book cover of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
by Yiyun Li
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

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...
Book cover of Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
by Yiyun Li
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010

In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li, a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner, a MacArthur Fellow, and one of The New Yorker’s top 20 fiction writers under 40, gives us exquisite stories in which politics and folklore magnificently illuminate the human condition. A professor introduces her middle-aged...
Book cover of Plus doux que la solitude
by Yiyun LI
Language: French
Release Date: September 3, 2015

" Yiyun Li excelle à rendre les vies ordinaires broyées par les aberrations du système Mao, les drames obscurs des sans-grades dans les villes de province et les carnages plus intimes des sentiments. Elle déploie un art du récit concentré et intimiste, tissé de mots simples et d'images classiques....
Book cover of Un beau jour de printemps
by Yiyun LI
Language: French
Release Date: May 5, 2011

À l'aube du 19 mars 1979, la petite ville de Rivière-Fangeuse est en ébullition : après dix ans de prison, Gu Shan, une ancienne garde rouge, va être exécutée. Son crime ? Avoir douté du parti. Et la mort n'est pas le pire de ce qu'elle va devoir subir. Cet événement va avoir des...
Book cover of Cher ami, de ma vie je vous écris dans votre vie
by Yiyun LI
Language: French
Release Date: September 6, 2018

Brillant, exigeant, un texte de la reconstruction psychique et artistique qui confronte avec pudeur et élégance deux questions essentielles : pourquoi écrire ? Pourquoi vivre ? Il fut un temps où je lisais les carnets de Katherine Mansfield pour me distraire. " Cher ami, de ma vie je vous...
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