Yiyun Li

A blackly comic story of the secrets, sex, and violence behind the curtain of a repertory theater's postwar production of Peter Pan: its "close observation and hilarity are underlain by a sense of tragedy as deep as any in fiction." (The Times)) Liverpool, 1950. Against the grimy backdrop of the gray postwar city, a shabby, scandal-steeped repertory theater company rehearses for their Christmas performance of Peter Pan. Treading the boards for the first time is sixteen-year-old Stella Bradshaw, ambitious, idealistic, and still overwhelmingly innocent. She falls hard for the rakish, monocled director, Meredith Potter, but, unable to attract his attentions-and not understanding why he's spending quite so much time with their male colleagues-she turns to another colleague to initiate her into the ways of love. Enter the celebrated P. L. O'Hara, a dashing leading man who's nursing secrets of his own. When the curtain is up, fantastical entertainment abounds, but backstage a very different drama is playing out: a pitch-black comedy of indiscretion, intrigue, and eventual tragedy. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and dusted with that magical "air of Pinteresque menace and Sparkian malice [that] lingers around the margins of [all of Beryl Bainbridge's] fiction," (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Book Review), An Awfully Big Adventure is one of the author's very best-and best-loved-novels.

Kogumik sisaldab novelle nuudiskirjanikelt ule kogu maailma ja viib lugeja muuhulgas ühte prantsuse pühapäeva, lopmatusse aega, mis jääb autost väljumise ja koduuksest sisseastumise vahele, hobuse pähe, India tänavatele, maailmaloppu Mikist ootama, surrogaatema igapäeva, kokandustundi ja muidugi reisile inimhinge südamesse.Kokku saavad autori-tolkija paarid Szila'rd Borbe'ly ja Lauri Eesmaa, Manon Uphoff ja Kairi Look, Maksim Ossipov ja Veronika Einberg, Annie Saumont ja Maria Esko, Roman Malonovskoi ja Ilona Martson, Bart Moeyaert ja Kerti Tergem, Kyoko Nakajima ja Alari Allik, Lutz Seiler ja Eve Sooneste, Yiyun Li ja Ann Alari, Menis Kumandareas ja Kaarina Rein, Dalton Trevisan ja Mariliin Vassenin, A. Igoni Barrett ja Heili Sepp, Alvydas Slepikas ja Tiina Kattel, Jan Balaba'n ja Küllike Tohver, Lana Bastasic' ja Madis Vainomaa, Kunwar Narain ja Mathura, Edina Szvoren ja Lauri Eesmaa.NB! Veebipoest tellides disaini valida ei saa.

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the Story Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature AwardNamed a Best Book of the Year by 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 strange man twice her age and several states away. In the stories of Wednesday's Child, people strive for an ordinary existence until doing so becomes unsustainable, until the surface cracks and the grand mysterious forces--death, violence, estrangement--come to light. Even before such moments, everyday life is laden with meaning, studded with indelible details: a filched jar of honey, a mound of wounded ants, a photograph kept hidden for many years, until it must be seen. Yiyun Li is a truly original writer, an alchemist of opposites: tender and unsentimental, metaphysical and blunt, funny and horrifying, omniscient and unusually aware of just how much we cannot know. Beloved for her novels and her memoir, she returns here to her earliest form, gathering pieces that have appeared in The New Yorker, Zoetrope, and other publications. Taken together, these stories, written over the span of a decade, articulate the cost, both material and emotional, of living--exile, assimilation, loss, love--with Li's trademark unnerving beauty and wisdom.

A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death*Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, New Statesman, Esquire and the New European*Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the great geniuses of twentieth-century literature. What happens when some of the most original literary minds of today take an idea, a mood or a line from his work and use it to spark something new?From a future society who ask their AI servants to construct a giant tower to reach God; to a flat hunt that descends into a comically absurd bureaucratic nightmare; to a population experiencing a wave of unbearable, contagious panic attacks, these ten specially commissioned stories are by turns mind-bending, funny, unsettling and haunting. Inspired by the visionary imagination of a writer working one hundred years ago, they speak powerfully to the strangeness of being alive today.

Winner of the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 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 2022 Named 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, from an English boarding school to the quiet Pennsylvania home where a woman can live without her past, The Book of Goose is a story of disturbing intimacy and obsession, of exploitation and strength of will, by the celebrated author Yiyun Li. Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agn s, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised--the place that Fabienne helped Agn s escape ten years ago. Now Agn s is free to tell her story. As children in a war-ravaged backwater town, they'd built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves--until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agn s on an epic trajectory through fame, fortune, and terrible loss.

For the writer Yiyun Li, whenever life has felt uncertain, War and Peace has been the novel she turns to. In March 2020, as the pandemic tightened its grip, Li and A Public Space launched #TolstoyTogether, a War and Peace book club, on Twitter and Instagram, gathering a community (that came to include writers such as Joyce Carol Oates, Garth Greenwell, and Carl Phillips) for 85 days of prompts, conversation, succor, and pleasure. It was an experience shaped not only by the time in which they read but also the slow, consistent rhythm of the reading. And the extraordinary community that gathered for a moment each day to discuss Tolstoy, history, and the role of art in a time like this. Tolstoy Together captures that moment, and offers a guided, communal experience for past and new readers, lovers of Russian literature, and all those looking for what Li identifies as "his level-headedness and clear-sightedness offer ing] a solidity during a time of duress."

"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 Interestings NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MARIE CLAIRE AND ESQUIRE 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 obsessed with Roland's intimate history, Lilia begins to annotate the diary with her own rather different version of events, revealing the surprising, long-held secrets of her past. She returns inexorably to the memory of her daughter Lucy. This is a novel about life in all its messy glory, and of a life lived, by the extraordinary Lilia, absolutely on its own terms. With great candor and insight, Yiyun Li navigates the twin poles of grief and resilience, loss and rebirth, that compass a human heart.

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 THE YEAR BY Parul Seghal, The New York Times - NPR - The Guardian - The Paris Review 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 doing it over again, this time by words." Yiyun Li meets life's deepest sorrows as she imagines a conversation between a mother and child in a timeless world. Composed in the months after she lost a child to suicide, Where Reasons End trespasses into the space between life and death as mother and child talk, free from old images and narratives. Deeply moving, these conversations portray the love and complexity of a relationship. Written with originality, precision, and poise, Where Reasons End is suffused with intimacy, inescapable pain, and fierce love.

En författare har problem med sitt skrivande och samtalar med sin son Nikolai. Han är sexton, intelligent, krävande, charmerande och inte sällan otålig och anklagande mot sin mor. Han ber henne att förstå, blir besviken när hon inte gör det. Han tycker att hennes svar ofta blir till banala uttryck. Men där finns också en oerhörd värme och närhet. Det är bara ett fel med deras relation: Nikolai är död. Han har begått självmord och hans mor gör sitt yttersta för att förstå hur det kunde ske. "Jag var nästan du en gång", säger hon, "det är därför jag måste uppfinna den här världen för att tala med dig."De talar om sorg, moderskap, minnet och hur orden ofta sviker när man behöver dem som mest. Nikolai förklarar aldrig varför han avslutade sitt liv, men det förtvivlar hans mor att tänka på allt detta mörker hon aldrig kunde tolka. Hon försöker att hålla tankarna borta från den sista dagen, men minns varenda steg hon tog den tagen fram till hon fick beskedet om vad som hänt. Hon berättar också att hon en gång skrev en roman som handlade om en kvinna som miste sin son i självmord. Kvinnan var fyrtiofyra år. "Jag visste inte att samma sak skulle hända mig när jag fyllde fyrtiofyra." Hennes son svarar: "Du kanske skrev romanen för att kunna förbereda dig."Dit mina tankar inte når är en hypnotiskt vacker roman som inte lämnar någon oberörd, skriven av en av USA:s mest hyllade författare."Vår tids mest intelligenta, insiktsfulla och hjärtskärande bok. Jag trycker den i handen på alla som jag möter och säger: Läs!" Andrew Sean Greer Hämta bokcirkelfrågor till Dit mina tankar inte når här >>

Tom Drury returns to the Midwest to spend a life changing autumn weekend in the company of a family whose memebers all want something without knowing how to get it: for Charles (aka Tony) it's an heirloom shotgun: for his wife, Joan, the imaginative life she once knew: for their young son, Micah, a sense of the limits of his world (in search of which he prowls the empty streets at night), and for Joan's daughter, Lyris, a stable base from which to begin to grow up. A delightful novel from a modern master.

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, Kinder Than Solitude is the story of three people whose lives are changed by a murder one of them may have committed. As one of the three observes, "Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime." When Moran, Ruyu, and Boyang were young, they were involved in a mysterious incident in which a friend of theirs was poisoned. Grown up, the three friends are separated by distance and personal estrangement. Moran and Ruyu live in the United States, Boyang in China; all three are haunted by what really happened in their youth, and by doubt about themselves. In California, Ruyu helps a local woman care for her family and home, avoiding entanglements, as she has done all her life. In Wisconsin, Moran visits her ex-husband, whose kindness once overcame her flight into solitude. In Beijing, Boyang struggles to deal with an inability to love, and with the outcome of what happened among the three friends twenty years before. Brilliantly written, a breathtaking page-turner, Kinder Than Solitude resonates with provocative observations about human nature and life. In mesmerizing prose, and with profound insight, Yiyun Li unfolds this remarkable story, even as she explores the impact of personality and the past on the shape of a person's present and future. Praise for Kinder Than Solitude "This is an exceptional novel, and Yiyun Li has grown into one of our major novelists."--Salman Rushdie "Yiyun Li infuses the traditional form with a fresh, rigorous beauty and a sense of permanence and increasing value."--Mona Simpson, author of My Hollywood " A] sleek, powerful novel about the weight of memory, the brunt of loss and the myriad ways the past can crimp the soul . . . Li gives us gifts of gorgeous prose. . . . Rarely are ordinary humans given such eloquent witness."--The Washington Post "What makes Kinder Than Solitude] so vivid is its humanity. . . . It is an inquiry into how the past scars us, shaping present and future, and some deeds, once committed, can never be undone."--Los Angeles Times " Li's] true gift . . . is old-fashioned storytelling and] a sense that a life, a whole life, can be captured on pages."--The Boston Globe "A stunning, dark, and beautiful book . . . Yiyun Li writes with characteristic genius."--Paul Harding, author of Tinkers and Enon

"Yiyun Li er den ægte vare." - the Guardian EFTER TUSIND ÅRS FROMME BØNNER beskriver et Kina efter Mao, efter Den Himmelske Freds Plads. Et land præget af sin historie og sin enorme størrelse, og hvor hvert menneske må finde nye måder at håndtere gamle traditioner på. En skolelærerinde får et besynderligt ægteskabstilbud fra en mand, som svigtede hende for mange år siden. En far forsøger at hjælpe sin datter efter hendes skilsmisse, som i hans øjne bryder med alt, han har forsøgt at lære hende. En ung homoseksuel mand vender tilbage til Kina for at møde sin mor, der nu har udskiftet revolutionen med religionen. Yiyun Li’s prisbelønnede novelledebutsamling er ti bevægende fortællinger fra et moderne Kina – de små liv i den store verden fra Beijing over Mongoliet til Chicago, præget af Kinas lange, sammensatte historie, hvor mytologi, politik og kultur betyder mere end den enkeltes liv.

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 son to a favorite student, unaware of the student's true affections. A lifelong bachelor finds kinship with a man wrongly accused of an indiscretion. Six women establish a private investigating agency to battle extramarital affairs in Beijing. Written in lyrical prose and with stunning honesty, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl introduces us to worlds strange and familiar, creating a mesmerizing and vibrant landscape of life.

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 city of Muddy River. A young woman, Gu Shan, a bold spirit and a follower of Chairman Mao, has renounced her faith in Communism. Now a political prisoner, she is to be executed for her dissent. Her distraught mother, determined to follow the custom of burning her only child's clothing to ease her journey into the next world, is about to make another bold decision. Shan's father, Teacher Gu, who has already, in his heart and mind, buried his rebellious daughter, begins to retreat into memories. Neither of them imagines that their daughter's death will have profound and far-reaching effects, in Muddy River and beyond. In luminous prose, Yiyun Li weaves together the lives of these and other unforgettable characters, including a serious seven-year-old boy, Tong; a crippled girl named Nini; the sinister idler Bashi; and Kai, a beautiful radio news announcer who is married to a man from a powerful family. Life in a world of oppression and pain is portrayed through stories of resilience, sacrifice, perversion, courage, and belief. We read of delicate moments and acts of violence by mothers, sons, husbands, neighbors, wives, lovers, and more, as Gu Shan's execution spurs a brutal government reaction. Writing with profound emotion, and in the superb tradition of fiction by such writers as Orhan Pamuk and J. M. Coetzee, Yiyun Li gives us a stunning novel that is at once a picture of life in a special part of the world during a historic period, a universal portrait of human frailty and courage, and a mesmerizing work of art. Praise for The Vagrants "She bridges our world to the Chinese world with a mind that is incredibly supple and subtle."--W Magazine "A Balzacian look at one community's suppressed loves and betrayals."--Vogue "A sweeping novel of struggle, survival, and love in the time of oppression. . . . an] illuminating, morally complex, and symphonic novel."--O Magazine

Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun's stories both indict outdated Chinese traditions and embrace China's cultural richness and individuality. This volume presents brand-new translations by Julia Lovell of all of Lu Xun's stories, including 'The Real Story of Ah-Q', 'Diary of a Madman', 'A Comedy of Ducks', 'The Divorce' and 'A Public Example', among others. With an afterword by Yiyun Li.

A debut collection of short fiction by a Chinese-American author focuses on the role of fate in the lives of characters living both in China and in the United States, in such works as "Immortality," about a young man who finds a calling because of his resemblance to the dictator, and "Extra" in which a middle-aged woman befriends a young boy who has become an outcast in his rural school. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.