A Thousand Years of Good Prayers : Stories (Paperback)

from porch_reader

Each of these stories has a common backdrop - political and cultural upheaval in China and among Chinese Americans. However, the stories themselves are much more personal than this indicates - a close up snapshot of the lives that are affected by these changes. In just a few pages, Li provides an...

from bibliobibuli

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is Yiyun Li's highly acclaimed short story collection which won the inaugeral Frank O'Connor Short Story Award among others. Her writing is fresh, lyrical - yet at times deeply disturbing. The short stories did precisely what short stories should do: illuminate sm...

from hemlokgang

Are you curious about life in China? Not the lives reported to us by the Chinese government, but as shared by someone who grew up there? This collection of short stories, the author's debut and winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, is absolutely wonderful. Each story offer...

from jump4sushi

I first found Ms. Li's short story, Immortality, in the Paris Review. She frames a story around a rural Chinese village's tradition of sending castrated young men (the euphemism she uses is "cleaned") to the imperial palace to serve as eunuchs. Fast forward to the Cultural Revolution, the story s...

from porch_reader

Each of these stories has a common backdrop - political and cultural upheaval in China and among Chinese Americans. However, the stories themselves are much more personal than this indicates - a close up snapshot of the lives that are affected by these changes. In just a few pages, Li provides an...