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Named a Best Book of 2023 by the Los Angeles Times, Vulture, Esquire, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews A new collection--about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life--by the award-winning, and inimitable, author of The Book of Goose.A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. Elsewhere, a professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year, a restless woman receives an email from a st...

`Any new book by Yiyun Li is a cause for celebration¿ Sigrid Nunez`One of our finest living authors¿ New York Times

`One of our major novelists¿ Salman Rushdie`One of our finest living authors¿ New York TimesA dazzling new collection of short stories, spanning 15 years of writing, from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The Book of Goose and Where Reasons End

Long-listed for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Slate Top Ten Book of the YearA TIME Best Fiction Book of 2022Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, Financial Times, San Francisco Chronicle, LitHub, Buzzfeed, and more.A magnificent, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris,...

A dazzling, subtle, skilful knockout - I loved it' Charlotte Mendelson 'One of our finest living authors ... propulsively entertaining' New York Times 'Wonderfully strange and alive' Jon McGregor

A new collection-about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life-by the award-winning, and inimitable, author of The Book of Goose.A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. Elsewhere, a professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year, a restless woman receives an email from a strange man twice her age and several states away. In Yiyun Li's stories, people strive for an ord...

A gripping, heartbreaking new novel about female friendship, art, and memory by the award-winning author of Where Reasons End. Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised-the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now, Agnès is free to tell her story.As children in a war-ravaged, backwater town, they'd built a private world, in...

A propulsive, gripping new novel about fate, art, exploitation, and intimacy from the award-winning author of Where Reasons End

Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised - the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now, Agnès is free to tell her story. As children in a backwater town, they'd built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves - until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnès on an epic trajectory...

One of our major novelists" (Salman Rushdie) tells the story of a woman reflecting on her uncompromising life, and the life of a former lover, in this provocative novel."Yiyun Li is one of my favorite writers, and Must I Go is an extraordinary book."-Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion and The InterestingsNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MARIE CLAIRE AND ESQUIRE Lilia Liska has shrewdly outlived t...

Richly expansive and deeply moving, an intimate novel of secret lives and painful histories from one of the finest storytellers we have'This brilliant novel examines lives lived, losses accumulated, and the slipperiness of perception. Yiyun Li writes deeply, drolly, and with elegance about history, even as it's happening. She is one of my favorite writers, and Must I Go is an extraordinary book.' Meg Wolitzer Lilia Liska is 81. She has shrewdl...

A reader's companion for Tolstoy's epic novel, War and Peace, inspired by the online book club led by Yiyun Li.

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 Journal WINNER OF THE PEN/JEAN STEIN AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF T...

One of our major novelists" (Salman Rushdie) tells the story of a woman reflecting on her uncompromising life, and the life of a former lover, in this provocative novel.Lilia Liska has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children, and seen the arrival of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair.Increasingly obsesse...

A novel in conversations between a mother and her dead son, as she attempts to come to terms with his suicide. Achieves wisdom, tenderness and clarity in its exploration of the line between the novel and memoir, comparable to W.G. Sebald and Rachel Cusk.

Richly expansive and deeply moving, an intimate novel of secret lives and painful histories from one of the finest storytellers we have'This brilliant novel examines lives lived, losses accumulated, and the slipperiness of perception. Yiyun Li writes deeply, drolly, and with elegance about history, even as it's happening. She is one of my favorite writers, and Must I Go is an extraordinary book.' Meg Wolitzer Lilia Liska is 81. She has shrewdl...

Nata e cresciuta in Cina, Yiyun Li è diventata scrittrice negli Stati Uniti, i suoi romanzi e racconti portano il segno di quel viaggio, il viaggio da una cultura all'altra, da una lingua e un pensiero intimi e privati a una lingua in cui i pensieri sono esposti e condivisi. Yiyun Li ha scritto questo libro nei due anni in cui la depressione l'ha separata da se stessa, obbligandola a una terribile resa dei conti con le proprie origini e con ci...

A novel in conversations between a mother and her dead son, as she attempts to come to terms with his suicide. Achieves wisdom, tenderness and clarity in its exploration of the line between the novel and memoir, comparable to W.G. Sebald and Rachel Cusk.

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 Journal The narrator of Where Reasons End writes, "I had but one delusion, which I held on to with all my willpower: We once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood, and I'm do...

Was für ein langer Weg es ist von einem Leben zu einem anderen: Doch warum schreiben, wenn nicht wegen dieser Distanz." Yiyun Li schreibt - ohne je das Wort zu verwenden - über ihren Selbstmordversuch, über das, was es bedeutet, an der Grenze zwischen Leben und Tod zu stehen. Sie kam als Immunologin von China nach Amerika und entdeckte erst dort, dass das Schreiben eine Form des Widerstands gegen die existenzielle Leere sein kann. In diesem zu...