Summary
A devastating and utterly original portrait of motherhood and grief.
“Days—the easiest possession. The days he had refused would come, one at a time. They would wait, every daybreak, with their boundless patience and indifference, seeing if they could turn me into an ally or an enemy to myself.”
A woman’s teenage son takes his own life. It is incomprehensible. The woman is a writer, and so she attempts to comprehend her grief in the space she knows best—on the page, as an imag…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241985182 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241985188 |
| Author: | Yiyun Li |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2020 |
| Weight: | 142g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 14mm |
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Heart-rending
an incredible piece of work * Chris Power, Open Book *a disquieting, delicate, affecting book * Irish Times *One of the most moving books I’ve ever read. * Leslie Jamison *Profoundly moving. An astonishing book, a true work of art. * Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers *The writing is raw and deeply affecting. * The Times *Heart-rending * The Sunday Times *Li writes with a shimmering and deeply felt precision. * Guardian *Unsentimental, brave and beautiful. An absolutely monumental book. * Daily Mail *The most intelligent, insightful, heart-wrenching book of our time. – Andrew Sean GreerA masterpiece. This book haunts me more than any other novel I’ve read in recent years. – Garth Greenwell
About The Author
Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li is the author of three novels, Where Reasons End, The Vagrants and Kinder Than Solitude, and two short-story collections, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, as well as the memoir, Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She has won literary awards including the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and the Guardian First Book Award, and was listed among Granta’s 21 Best of Young American Novelists 2007. Her stories have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review and elsewhere. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of a Windham-Campbell Prize and a Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University.
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