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Cosa unisce Boyang, giovane immobiliarista rampante di Pechino, Ruyu, commessa e amica-factotum di ricche e annoiate signore californiane, e Moran, ricercatrice di laboratorio in una sperduta azienda farmaceutica del Massachusetts? O meglio: quale segreto del loro passato li divide e li tiene lontani? E quale ruolo ciascuno di loro ha avuto nella morte dell'antica compagna cui si apprestano a dare l'ultimo saluto? Per scoprirlo, Yiyun Li ci ri...

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 is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance?"Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this is a luminous account of a life lived with b...

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A beautifully executed debut collection of 10 stories explores the ravages of the Cultural Revolution on modern Chinese, both in China and America. "Extra" portrays the grim plight of Granny Lin, an elderly widow without a pension, whose job as a maid at a boarding school outside Beijing leads to a surprising friendship with one of her young charges, Kang. Li deftly weaves a political message into her human portraits: young Kang, the son of a ...

La historia de toda una ciudad que muestra sus verdaderos sentimientos ante la ejecución de una mujer en la China comunista de finales del siglo XX.Un anciano barre la acera gris, una mujer pega carteles rojos por la calle, una niña maltrecha corre en busca de carbón y un chiquillo huye de su casa para jugar con un perro. Parece una mañana de primavera cualquiera en la ciudad china de Río Turbio, pero muy pronto todos sabrán que con el buen ti...

The astonishing first novel from the author of the award-winning story collection "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" weaves together the delicate moments between mothers and sons, husbands and wives, illuminating the reality of oppression and pain.

In Yiyun Lis Geschichten geht es um die komplizierte Liebe zwischen Menschen, die einander lieben wollen und sich doch nicht verstehen: Tausend Jahre Beten seien notwendig, damit Vater und Kind zu einem guten Verhältnis finden, doch zwischen Herrn Shi und seiner Tochter herrscht verlegenes Schweigen. Eine Mutter in China will ihren erfolgreichen Sohn - einen "diamantenen Junggesellen" - verheiraten, doch der macht sich nichts aus Frauen. Und S...

The second collection of stories from Yiyun Li, author of the Guardian First Book Award-winning A THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD PRAYERS and THE VAGRANTS. The stories in this collection, are mostly set in China. The country portrayed here is the China of the 21st century, where economic development has led to new situations unknown to previous decades. Yiyun Li's new collection of stories is a report from the front-line of a changing world, and confir...