Yiyun Li

"No hay una buena manera de exponer estos hechos, que deben ser aclarados antes de poder seguir con el libro. Mi marido y yo tuvimos dos hijos y los perdimos a ambos. A Vincent en 2017, a los dieciséis años; a James en 2024, a los diecinueve. Los dos eligieron el suicidio y los dos murieron a poca distancia de casa".Yiyun Li escribe sobre estas perdidas y lo que les sigue: no es un proceso de duelo que eventualmente termina, sino un abismo que se presenta ante ella, un tiempo quebrado, un estado nuevo en el que debera vivir para siempre. En la naturaleza las cosas crecen no presenta las respuestas ni los cierres que se esperan en un texto como este. Es, mas bien, una reflexion sobre la vida y la muerte y, principalmente, sobre ser madre tras el suicidio de dos hijos, y como se habita esa realidad para la que no existen palabras. ¿Como puede leerse una memoria asi? ¿Como puede soportarse? Quiza se deba a la potencia de la autora, su honestidad atroz y valentia. En este libro se encuentra una verdad sin victimismos, y una sinceridad que esquiva los golpes bajos sin arrojarse al consuelo o la condescendencia. Yiyun Li, en el momento mas doloroso, escribio una obra maestra sobre la vida y las formas de afrontarla, y tambien sobre como entender al otro, aun en sus decisiones mas radicales.En la naturaleza las cosas crecen demuestra por que los artistas a veces nos aportan mas sabiduria que cualquier espiritualidad. LOS ANGELES TIMES Con sus reflexiones directas e implacables, Li enfrenta no solo la perdida de sus hijos, sino tambien los limites del lenguaje, mientras sobrelleva un dolor indescriptible. THE NEW YORK TIMESEl libro de Li es una meditacion sobre la vida y la aceptacion que tiene el potencial de ofrecer un consuelo profundo, un cierto alivio desde lo abismal. THE GUARDIAN

Dir que aquest llibre tan valent és un testimoni de l’amor és quedar-se molt curt. Et transforma», The Observer Yiyun Li va perdre els dos fills quan en Vincent tenia setze anys, al 2017, i en James

Un libro para lectora y amantes de la literatura sobre el poder de la ficción y la lectura por una de las grandes narradoras contemporáneas. “Durante años he tenido la creencia de que todas mis preg

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2024 Any book by Yiyun Li is a cause for celebration SIGRID NUNEZ One of our finest living authors NEW YORK TIMESBruising, beautiful GUARDIAN A dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade, spanning loss, alienation, ageing and the strangeness of contemporary life from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The Book of Goose A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone shes lost. 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 Lis stories, people strive for an ordinary existence until doing so becomes unsustainable, until the surface cracks and grand mysterious forces death, violence, estrangement come to light. And even 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. Li is a breathtakingly original writer, an alchemist of opposites: tender and unsentimental, metaphysical and blunt, funny and horrifying, omniscient and yet acutely aware of just how much we cannot know. Beloved for her novels and memoirs, she returns here to her earliest form, gathering short stories and a remarkable novella never before published in the UK. Taken together, the stories in Wednesdays Child articulate the true cost of living with all Lis trademark unnerving beauty and searing wisdom. Quiet, subtle and often agonisingly wrenching Li explores the brittle fractures within the human heart A shimmering meditation FINANCIAL TIMES Strands of melancholy are braided through Lis tender, thoughtful stories DAILY MAIL Against the backdrop of threat, Lis characters meditate coolly on meaning and mortality OBSERVER

Un doble de Mao que se queda sin empleo, un joven que vuelve a China y encuentra a su madre convertida en ferviente católica, o un anciano que pasa las horas hablando en chino con una señora iraní que no entiende una palabra, pero que siempre le sonríe… Situaciones cotidianas que expresan un doloroso extrañamiento de la realidad, una pérdida de toda referencia, y que nos muestran el futuro como algo incomprensible e inquietante.

The much-anticipated first novel from the Guardian First Book Award-winning Chinese writer.In the provincial town of Muddy Waters in China, a young woman named Gu Shan is sentenced to death for her loss of faith in Communism. She is twenty-eight years old and has already spent ten years in prison. The citizens stage a protest after her death and, over the following six weeks, the town goes through uncertainty, hope and fear until eventually the rebellion is brutally suppressed. They are all taken on a painful journey, from one young woman''s death to another.We follow the pain of Gu Shan''s parents, the hope and fear of the leaders of the protest and their families. Even those who seem unconnected to the tragedy '' an eleven-year-old boy seeking fame and glory, a nineteen-year-old village idiot in love with a young and deformed girl, an old couple making a living by scavenging the town''s garbage cans '' are caught up in a remorseless turn of events.Yiyun Li''s novel is based on the true story which took place in China in 1979.

In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li, a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner, a MacArthur Fellow, and one of The New Yorkers 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 students 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.

The new novel from Yiyun Li, author of The Vagrants and the Guardian First Book Award-winning A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. When Moran, Ruyu, and Boyang were young, they were involved in a mysterious 'accident' in which a young woman was poisoned. Now grown up, the three friends are separated by this incident, and by time and distance. Boyang stayed in China, while Moran and Ruyu emigrated to the United States. All three remain haunted by what really happened. A breathtaking page-turner, Kinder Than Solitude resonates with provocative observations about human nature and the virtues of loyalty. In mesmerizing prose, and with profound philosophical 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.

Estos diez hermosos relatos de la joven escritora china Yiyun Li hablan con ternura y melancolía de la desazón que produce vivir atrapado entre el pasado y el presente.Poco importa el lugar donde Yiyun Li ambienta sus relatos: tanto si nos encontramos en un restaurante barato de Chicago como en un mercado de un pueblo cerca de Mongolia o en las calles de Pekin, todos sus personajes reflejan el desconcierto de un pueblo que se enfrenta como mejor puede a las reglas de una nueva vida, donde las palabras del antiguo regimen ya no tienen valor y aun no se ha aprendido a usar maneras nuevas de vivir la vida. Al abrir el libro nos encontramos con la historia de un pobre hombre acostumbrado a ganarse la vida como sustituto de Mao en ciertas ceremonias, y que ahora sabe que su trabajo ya no tiene sentido. Si seguimos, veremos a una madre y una hija enfrentadas por un noviazgo que tendra un destino atroz, o a un hombre joven que vuelve de Estados Unidos a China para venerar a su anciana madre, que se ha convertido al catolicismo y lo practica con el mismo fervor con que antes leia el Libro rojo, y finalmente acabaremos en un parque de una ciudad norteamericana, donde un anciano, que ha ido a visitar a su hija, entretiene su soledad hablando en chino con una vieja mujer persa, que no entiende su idioma pero sabe sonreir.Con una prosa sobria, reticente incluso, esta nueva autora ha encontrado modos insolitos de expresar algo tan manido como el vacio que todo ser humano siente cuando de pronto el ayer ya no sirve de referencia y el mañana nos encuentra cansados y poco dispuestos a creer en grandes ideales. Lo que queda, y no es poco, son los buenos deseos, los pequeños amores, los objetos diminutos que tapizan nuestro presente y nos consuelan de tanto trajin.

Salman Rushdie dit de Yiyun Li quelle est " lune des plus grandes autrices de notre temps ". Elle le prouve avec son nouveau roman sur lamitié féminine, entre admiration mutuelle et rancœur, nest pas

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2024 Any book by Yiyun Li is a cause for celebration SIGRID NUNEZ One of our finest living authors NEW YORK TIMES Bruising beautiful GUARDIANA dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade spanning loss alienation ageing and the strangeness of contemporary life from Yiyun Li the prize winning author of The Book of GooseA grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she s lost 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 ordinary existence until doing so becomes unsustainable until the surface cracks and grand mysterious forces death violence estrangement come to light And even 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 Li is a breathtakingly original writer an alchemist of opposites tender and unsentimental metaphysical and blunt funny and horrifying omniscient and yet acutely aware of just how much we cannot know Beloved for her novels and memoirs she returns here to her

Winner of the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize Auntie Mei is a live-in nanny for newborns and their mothers. She has worked for a hundred and twenty-six families and looked after a hundred and thirty-one babies, one set of clients easily replaced by the next. But the hundred and thirty-second baby and his mother Chanel prompts a crisis in Auntie Meis life a tremor that threatens to destroy her resolute detachment.

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Étincelant et provocateur, un roman dune grande honnêteté sur une femme au crépuscule de sa vie, prête à en faire le bilan. Une œuvre lumineuse, portée par le style remarquable de celle que Salman Ru

Jai failli être à ta place un jour, et cest pour ça que je me suis permis dinventer ce monde pour parler avec toi. On peut supporter la tristesse, mais elle est une garnison impuissante contre la céc

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 with personality to create fate. From the bustling heart of Beijing, to a fast-food restaurant in Chicago, to the barren expanse of Inner Mongolia, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers reveals worlds both foreign and familiar, with heartbreaking honesty and in beautiful prose.Immortality, winner of The Paris Reviews Plimpton Prize for new writers, tells the story of a young man who bears a striking resemblance to a dictator and so finds a calling to immortality. In The Princess of Nebraska, a man and a woman who were both in love with a young actor in China meet again in America and try to reconcile the lost love with their new lives.