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2024-12-24
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
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.
中国人当真这么逆来顺受吗?还是作者臆想的民族性?
评分#3-4 stars. Def overrated.
评分最喜欢的是同名的短篇故事。
评分前两个短篇就是开胃菜,后面每一个短篇都是致郁的神伤。看完接下来后的每一个短篇都郁结得想去操场跑圈。所有给li Yiyun的千年祈愿打三星的中国读者一定被深深地伤害了中国人的感情。作者算是个温柔的人,处处手下留情了
评分还蛮queer的,(self-) translation的问题也很有趣。
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...
评分也是前不久才知道这个人。居然是在时尚杂志Elle上看到的,颇为有趣。后来在M dong家的期末饭局上提起用英语写作的born-in-mainland,我们说起除了哈金,就是这个Yiyun Li. 我看书有个毛病,就是先会去网上做所谓的homework。查查这个人的背景,搜搜书评什么的,否则不敢贸然浪...
评分 评分一个偶然的机会,读了李翊云2003在New Yorker上的短篇Extra,并开始对她产生兴趣。于是找出了她的另外两部短篇:《The old country》和《Eat, Memory; Orange Crush》。之后又在网上做了点功课,得知她1996年北大生物毕业到爱荷华大学读免疫,后来转为小说创作,2005年的处女短...
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...
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024