A Thousand Years of Good Prayersepub,mobi,azw3格式电子书下载，作者：Yiyun Li-读书派

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.

弗兰题

10-04

Craft(namely structure!) > details > storyline > emotion 或者说这本书完全没有情感而言，只是李翊云对本国的深深的pity。可能MFA还是有用的吧，李后来的几本书脱离了恨国的情绪后才有真的灵魂了

小马

12-14

有明显的时代痕迹，好像在听上个世纪的故事，不善言辞的人物和混乱疯狂的集体主义。最喜欢第一篇《Extra》（多余）：从国企下岗的林奶奶，起先因生活贫困嫁给患有老年痴呆症的老头，老头死了，经由老头的儿子介绍去一所私立学校做后勤。在这所学校里她碰见了同样被抛弃的小男孩康康。他们一起散步、看书和荡秋千，直到一天，奶奶和整个学校都发现了康康的小癖好。最后奶奶又孤身一人，坐在街头彷徨不知该去向何方。林奶奶退休后变成企业的「多余」，失去丈夫成为家庭的「多余」，因康康的恶作剧被辞退，变成了社会的「多余」。

Barroquería

06-30

Tender yet disquieting.

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