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.
A brilliant writer imagines a fictional conversation between a mother and the teenage son she lost to suicide. Yiyun Li confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and love.
The narrator writes, "I had but one delusion, which I held onto 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."
Written in the months after the author lost a child to suicide and composed as a story cycle, this conversation between mother and child unfolds in a timeless world. Deeply intimate, poignant, and moving, these conversations portray the love and complexity in a relationship across generations, even as they capture the pain of sadness, longing, and loss.
In writing this book, Yiyun Li was inspired by a line from Proust's Remembrance of Things Past "Ideas come to us as the successors to griefs, and griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some part of their power to injure the heart; the transformation itself, even, for an instant, releases suddenly a little joy."
Meeting life's deepest sorrow with originality, precision and poise, Where Reasons End is suffused with intimacy, inescapable pain, and fierce love.
同样是呈现母子见的对话,我开始以为它会像龙应台的《亲爱的安德烈》一样,在对世界真相的探讨中给读者展现亲子之间试图消除年代隔阂与文化差异的努力。可是<Where Reasons End>的对话走向却跟设想中完全不一样,因为想对话的另一方早已舍弃这个世界,将的生命句号画在了...
評分 評分同样是呈现母子见的对话,我开始以为它会像龙应台的《亲爱的安德烈》一样,在对世界真相的探讨中给读者展现亲子之间试图消除年代隔阂与文化差异的努力。可是<Where Reasons End>的对话走向却跟设想中完全不一样,因为想对话的另一方早已舍弃这个世界,将的生命句号画在了...
評分This is an unconventional book about lost and grief. A imaginative conversation between a mother and her teenage son who took his own life. Nicolai is dead yet it seems so real to me that he's there. Yiyun's writing connects them together without any cliche...
評分Where reasons end是Yiyun Li在十六岁的大儿子毫无征兆地自杀后写作的,写的是一个母亲和死去的儿子Nicolai的对话,在一个没有时间没有视觉仅有声音的地方 Yiyun Li另有一本回忆录叫Dear Friend, from my life I write to you in your life: 她这样解释这个题目: The books on...
20200327更新,之前的評論通通拋掉,細讀下來真的是難以名狀的悲傷????我怎麼會選擇研究這本書呢,不該也不能,太敏感真的是很幸福也無比痛苦的一件事,這件事無人分享,不奢求任何人能懂,但也不可以就此順從不可理解,善於遺忘的人生。Where reasons end其實寫滿瞭永遠都“不夠“的reason.
评分2019.7.4~7.8
评分"I prefer a world made of the perishable, he said. Not the inevitable."
评分2019.7.4~7.8
评分跟之前那本迴憶錄dear friend類似,同樣是很沉重的一本書。這本是fiction,但不是傳統意義上的fiction, 基本上以母子之間的對話為主。這本書閱讀難度並不高,可能較短的時間就能讀完,但是裏麵許多句子乍看簡單可再一看會覺得很難懂。其實這本書算是作者很私人化的東西,換做是我,可能不想要齣版齣來。可是我的這種假設其實是很粗暴的,我無權對作者的選擇妄加評論。
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