图书标签: 李翊云 短篇小说 美国华人 小说 YiyunLi 短篇 文学 英文
发表于2025-02-03
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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 Review’s 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.
“After a Life” illuminates the vagaries of marriage, parenthood, and gender, unfolding the story of a couple who keep a daughter hidden from the world. And in “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers,” in which a man visits America for the first time to see his recently divorced daughter, only to discover that all is not as it seems, Li boldly explores the effects of communism on language, faith, and an entire people, underlining transformation in its many meanings and incarnations.
These and other daring stories form a mesmerizing tapestry of revelatory fiction by an unforgettable writer.
#3-4 stars. Def overrated.
评分#3-4 stars. Def overrated.
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评分I liked Extra(school), After a Life(ending) and Death is Not a Bad Joke(quadrangle life) over the other stories. When ever Li forced non-relevant historical context in, the stories were unpalatable.
评分李翊云第一次写小说,是用英语。她是中国人,1973年生,北大生物系毕业后到美国留学。她说:英语给她表达的自由。 在书虫看到她,非常欣赏。那种淳朴诚实的气质,和她自己喜欢的小说的“villageness"的风格,倒是相承。会场上,她不知说了几次抱歉不了解,不知道,所以回答不了你的问题。啊,我有多久没有见过这样的“自然”人。 中国作家里她喜欢沈从文和老舍。外国则是她一再提及的爱尔兰作家William Trevor,后者小说的人物身上便有她为之着迷的villageness。
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is a collection of ten short stories written by the Chinese author Yiyun Li. The sharp observation of human relationships, the sometimes punchy, sometimes minimalistic dialogs, as well as the warmth and empathy underneath, a...
评分There is a perception that the intension of some Asian-American writers' writing is to satisfy the western readers' curiosity towards China. Therefore, the common theme of this kind of works is to show the "dark" said of China, for example, the untolerant p...
评分 评分李翊云并不喜欢读者过多在意她的政治立场,中国的历史背景无可避免是她的小说的潜在舞台,但作品中并没有故意取巧的痕迹,正如她自己所说,她“不是在解剖大陆”而是在解剖人性。李翊云最喜欢的两位作家分别是爱尔兰著名小说家威廉•特雷佛(William Trevor) 和约翰•迈...
评分A Thousand Years of Good Prayers : Stories win new book award 2006 in UK;Dec.5 2006 in UK
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