Yiyun Li

"No hay una buena manera de exponer estos hechos, que deben ser aclarados antes de poder seguir con el libro. Mi marido y yo tuvimos dos hijos y los perdimos a ambos. A Vincent en 2017, a los dieciséis años; a James en 2024, a los diecinueve. Los dos eligieron el suicidio y los dos murieron a poca distancia de casa".Yiyun Li escribe sobre estas perdidas y lo que les sigue: no es un proceso de duelo que eventualmente termina, sino un abismo que se presenta ante ella, un tiempo quebrado, un estado nuevo en el que debera vivir para siempre. En la naturaleza las cosas crecen no presenta las respuestas ni los cierres que se esperan en un texto como este. Es, mas bien, una reflexion sobre la vida y la muerte y, principalmente, sobre ser madre tras el suicidio de dos hijos, y como se habita esa realidad para la que no existen palabras. ¿Como puede leerse una memoria asi? ¿Como puede soportarse? Quiza se deba a la potencia de la autora, su honestidad atroz y valentia. En este libro se encuentra una verdad sin victimismos, y una sinceridad que esquiva los golpes bajos sin arrojarse al consuelo o la condescendencia. Yiyun Li, en el momento mas doloroso, escribio una obra maestra sobre la vida y las formas de afrontarla, y tambien sobre como entender al otro, aun en sus decisiones mas radicales.En la naturaleza las cosas crecen demuestra por que los artistas a veces nos aportan mas sabiduria que cualquier espiritualidad. LOS ANGELES TIMES Con sus reflexiones directas e implacables, Li enfrenta no solo la perdida de sus hijos, sino tambien los limites del lenguaje, mientras sobrelleva un dolor indescriptible. THE NEW YORK TIMESEl libro de Li es una meditacion sobre la vida y la aceptacion que tiene el potencial de ofrecer un consuelo profundo, un cierto alivio desde lo abismal. THE GUARDIAN

Dir que aquest llibre tan valent és un testimoni de l’amor és quedar-se molt curt. Et transforma», The Observer Yiyun Li va perdre els dos fills quan en Vincent tenia setze anys, al 2017, i en James

Un libro para lectora y amantes de la literatura sobre el poder de la ficción y la lectura por una de las grandes narradoras contemporáneas. “Durante años he tenido la creencia de que todas mis preg

In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li, a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner, a MacArthur Fellow, and one of The New Yorkers top 20 fiction writers under 40, gives us exquisite stories in which politics and folklore magnificently illuminate the human condition. A professor introduces her middle-aged son to a favorite student, unaware of the students true affections. A lifelong bachelor finds kinship with a man wrongly accused of an indiscretion. Six women establish a private investigating agency to battle extramarital affairs in Beijing. Written in lyrical prose and with stunning honesty, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl introduces us to worlds strange and familiar, creating a mesmerizing and vibrant landscape of life.

Un doble de Mao que se queda sin empleo, un joven que vuelve a China y encuentra a su madre convertida en ferviente católica, o un anciano que pasa las horas hablando en chino con una señora iraní que no entiende una palabra, pero que siempre le sonríe… Situaciones cotidianas que expresan un doloroso extrañamiento de la realidad, una pérdida de toda referencia, y que nos muestran el futuro como algo incomprensible e inquietante.

The much-anticipated first novel from the Guardian First Book Award-winning Chinese writer.In the provincial town of Muddy Waters in China, a young woman named Gu Shan is sentenced to death for her loss of faith in Communism. She is twenty-eight years old and has already spent ten years in prison. The citizens stage a protest after her death and, over the following six weeks, the town goes through uncertainty, hope and fear until eventually the rebellion is brutally suppressed. They are all taken on a painful journey, from one young woman''s death to another.We follow the pain of Gu Shan''s parents, the hope and fear of the leaders of the protest and their families. Even those who seem unconnected to the tragedy '' an eleven-year-old boy seeking fame and glory, a nineteen-year-old village idiot in love with a young and deformed girl, an old couple making a living by scavenging the town''s garbage cans '' are caught up in a remorseless turn of events.Yiyun Li''s novel is based on the true story which took place in China in 1979.

The new novel from Yiyun Li, author of The Vagrants and the Guardian First Book Award-winning A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. When Moran, Ruyu, and Boyang were young, they were involved in a mysterious 'accident' in which a young woman was poisoned. Now grown up, the three friends are separated by this incident, and by time and distance. Boyang stayed in China, while Moran and Ruyu emigrated to the United States. All three remain haunted by what really happened. A breathtaking page-turner, Kinder Than Solitude resonates with provocative observations about human nature and the virtues of loyalty. In mesmerizing prose, and with profound philosophical insight, Yiyun Li unfolds this remarkable story, even as she explores the impact of personality and the past on the shape of a person's present and future.

Estos diez hermosos relatos de la joven escritora china Yiyun Li hablan con ternura y melancolía de la desazón que produce vivir atrapado entre el pasado y el presente.Poco importa el lugar donde Yiyun Li ambienta sus relatos: tanto si nos encontramos en un restaurante barato de Chicago como en un mercado de un pueblo cerca de Mongolia o en las calles de Pekin, todos sus personajes reflejan el desconcierto de un pueblo que se enfrenta como mejor puede a las reglas de una nueva vida, donde las palabras del antiguo regimen ya no tienen valor y aun no se ha aprendido a usar maneras nuevas de vivir la vida. Al abrir el libro nos encontramos con la historia de un pobre hombre acostumbrado a ganarse la vida como sustituto de Mao en ciertas ceremonias, y que ahora sabe que su trabajo ya no tiene sentido. Si seguimos, veremos a una madre y una hija enfrentadas por un noviazgo que tendra un destino atroz, o a un hombre joven que vuelve de Estados Unidos a China para venerar a su anciana madre, que se ha convertido al catolicismo y lo practica con el mismo fervor con que antes leia el Libro rojo, y finalmente acabaremos en un parque de una ciudad norteamericana, donde un anciano, que ha ido a visitar a su hija, entretiene su soledad hablando en chino con una vieja mujer persa, que no entiende su idioma pero sabe sonreir.Con una prosa sobria, reticente incluso, esta nueva autora ha encontrado modos insolitos de expresar algo tan manido como el vacio que todo ser humano siente cuando de pronto el ayer ya no sirve de referencia y el mañana nos encuentra cansados y poco dispuestos a creer en grandes ideales. Lo que queda, y no es poco, son los buenos deseos, los pequeños amores, los objetos diminutos que tapizan nuestro presente y nos consuelan de tanto trajin.

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2024 Any book by Yiyun Li is a cause for celebration SIGRID NUNEZ One of our finest living authors NEW YORK TIMES Bruising beautiful GUARDIANA dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade spanning loss alienation ageing and the strangeness of contemporary life from Yiyun Li the prize winning author of The Book of GooseA grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she s lost A professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser And every year a restless woman receives an email from a strange man twice her age and several states away In Yiyun Li s stories people strive for an ordinary existence until doing so becomes unsustainable until the surface cracks and grand mysterious forces death violence estrangement come to light And even everyday life is laden with meaning studded with indelible details a filched jar of honey a mound of wounded ants a photograph kept hidden for many years until it must be seen Li is a breathtakingly original writer an alchemist of opposites tender and unsentimental metaphysical and blunt funny and horrifying omniscient and yet acutely aware of just how much we cannot know Beloved for her novels and memoirs she returns here to her

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 Reviews 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.

Yiyun Li ens presenta en aquest volum un conjunt de relats plens de bellesa, profunditat i suspens que mostren com la història, la política i la cultura tradicional s’entrellacen amb l’essència de la

Richly expansive and deeply moving, an intimate novel of secret lives and painful histories from one of the finest storytellers we haveThis brilliant novel examines lives lived, losses accumulated, and the slipperiness of perception. Yiyun Li writes deeply, drolly, and with elegance about history, even as its happening. She is one of my favorite writers, and Must I Go is an extraordinary book. Meg Wolitzer Lilia Liska is 81. She has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children and seen the arrival of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to a strange little book published by a vanity press: the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair.Increasingly obsessed by this fragment of intimate history, Lilia begins to annotate the diary with her own rather different version of events. Gradually she undercuts Rolands charming but arrogant voice with an incisive and deeply moving commentary. She reveals to us the surprising, long-held secrets of her past. And she returns inexorably to her daughter, Lucy, who took her own life at the age of 27.Must I Go is an unconventional epistolary novel, a gleefully one-way correspondence between

Brilliant and original, ''A Thousand Years of Good Prayers'' introduces a remarkable first collection of stories about China from an author set to become a major literary talent. In this extraordinary first collection, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and guilt. In ''Immortality'', winner of the Paris Review prize, a young man bears a striking resemblance to the dictator, and so finds a strange kind of calling. In ''Extra'', first published in the New Yorker, a Chinese woman, alone in middle age, befriends a young boy who has become an outcast in a remote country school. In their friendship, we see how love can begin to overcome the strictures that dominate their lives. In turn horrifying and breathtakingly lyrical, Yiyun Li, a new and talented young Chinese writer, confronts the silence that dominated the history of her country, and illuminates how mythology, politics, history and culture intersect with personality. She leaves us with an enduring vision of a country undergoing tremendous change.

Yiyun Li nos presenta en este volumen nueve historias de delicada belleza sobre la China actual, donde historia, política y el peso de la cultura tradicional se entremezclan con la esencia de la cond

Unforgettable SUNDAY TIMES Courageous OBSERVER One of the most important books to be published in years SARA COLLINS There are few writers with Li s power DOUGLAS STUARTThe best book I have read this year DAVID NICHOLLS I will return to it for the rest of my life CHARLOTTE WOODA remarkable defiant work of radical acceptance from acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist Yiyun Li as she considers the loss of her son James There is no good way to say this Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book There is no good way to state these facts which must be acknowledged My husband and I had two children and lost them both Vincent in 2017 at sixteen James in 2024 at nineteen Both chose suicide and both died not far from home There is no good way to say this because words fall short It takes only an instant for death to become fact a single point in a timeline Living now on this single point Li turns to thinking and reasoning and searching for words that might hold a place for James Li does what she can including not just writing but gardening reading Camus and Wittgenstein learning the piano and living thinkingly alongside death This is a book for James but it is not a book about grieving As Li writes The verb that does not die i

Un anciano barre la acera gris, una mujer pega carteles rojos por la calle, una niña maltrecha corre en busca de carbón y un chiquillo huye de su casa para jugar con un perro# Parece una mañana de primavera cualquiera en la ciudad china de Rio Turbio, pero muy pronto todos sabran que con el buen tiempo ha llegado tambien el dia de la ejecucion publica de la joven Gu Shan, culpable de haber expresado sus dudas acerca de la revolucion maoista. El reloj apremia, la hora de la muerte se acerca, y cada vecino vive a su manera este momento atroz: los padres de Gu Shan se mueven entre la verguenza y la rebeldia; Bashi, el loco del barrio, quiza vea hoy por primera vez el cuerpo desnudo de una mujer; Tong y Nini, niños aun, intuyen que se acabo el tiempo de los juegos, y en las altas esferas del partido alguien conspira. Es un dia de marzo de 1979, un dia cualquiera, pero toda la sabiduria y la crueldad de las que es capaz el ser humano se apiñan en ese instante de tension absoluta. La fuerza de Yiyun Li, su escritura limpia, ese mundo tan suyo donde el bien y el mal no tienen limites, nos llevan hasta Las puertas del paraiso para recordarnos que ahi al lado, muy cerca, se abren las puertas del infierno. #Una novela capaz de mostrarnos que la piedad es un lujo y el ser humano sigue siendo el animal mas peligroso sobre la faz de la tierra. New Yorker