圖書標籤: 李翊雲 英文 美國華人 YiyunLi 美國 短篇小說 有趣話題 小說
发表于2024-05-13
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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.
Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing, China and moved to the United States in 1996. She received an MFA from Iowa Writers' Workshop and an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. Her stories and essays have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review,and elsewhere. She has received a Whiting Writers' Award and was awarded a Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa, TX. Her debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, Guardian First Book Award, and California Book Award for first fiction. She was recently selected as one of Granta's 21 Best of Young American Novelists. She lives in Oakland, California with her husband and their two sons, and teaches at University of California, Davis.
Love Yiyun's language, it flows like water. Her stories are sometimes placid and bit too serene, but the feelings are real and tender. I shiver at some of the images in her collection. Favorite story so far: Love in the Market Place
評分簡單通俗的文字也可以寫得有滋有味。
評分"a foreign country gives one foreign thoughts"; meanwhile, a foreign language helps one to express what s/he fails to say in the language s/he was brought up with.
評分簡單通俗的文字也可以寫得有滋有味。
評分選看瞭Extra、Immortality、The Princess of Nebraska還有A Thousand Years of Good Prayers。英文簡潔乾淨,故事有情有力。我有時也挺贊同她所說,使用英文讓我們擺脫華文帶來的政治與文化束縛,思想與文字真正投奔自由。
(标题是解释《千年敬祈a thousand years of good prayers》的含义。与正文内容无关。起标题神马的最讨厌了。) 阅读李翊云的这本处女作,最亲切之处永远是那些译用了中国成语谚语歌谣的地方:如鲠在喉、如履薄冰、买椟还珠的故事、“人要脸树要皮”、“一二三四五,上山打老虎...
評分 評分A Thousand Years of Good Prayers : Stories win new book award 2006 in UK;Dec.5 2006 in UK
評分 評分最开始接触李翊云并不是因为这本书,而是她的那本回忆录《Dear Friend, From My Life I Write Into Your Life》。那本书我读起来觉得像是另一个我在表达,heart-breaking, bleak, stiff, holding back but emotional underneath. 更多的关于那本书的评价我打算看完以后再写。总...
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024