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 new novel from Yiyun Li, author of 'The Vagrants' and the Guardian First Book Award-winning' A Thousand Years of Good Prayers'.[...]

A debut collection of short fiction by a Chinese-American author focuses on the role of fate in the lives of characters living both in China and in the United States, in such works as "Immortality," about a young man who finds a calling because of his resemblance to the dictator, and "Extra" in whic[...]

In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li, a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner, a MacArthur Fellow, and one of "The New Yorker"'s top 20 fiction writers under 40, gives us exquisite stories in which politics and folklore magnificently illuminate the human condition. A professor introduces her midd[...]

A profound mystery is at the heart of this magnificent new novel by Yiyun Li, "one of America's best young novelists" ("Newsweek") and the celebrated author of "The Vagrants, "winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Moving back and forth in time, between America today and China in the 1990s, "[...]

Gulddreng, smaragdpige består af ni noveller, der med lyrisk præcision, ømhed og elegnace skildrer en gruppe mennesker i nutidens Kina.

I ´House Fire´ etablerer en seks kvinder et detektivburea i Beijing for at komme de mange udenomsægteksabelige affærer til livs. I t[...]

Yiyun Li beskriver ett Kina efter Mao, efter Himmelska fridens torg. Ett land präglat av sin historia och sin enorma storlek där varje människa måste hitta nya sätt att hantera gamla traditioner. Be för mig i tusen år beskriver ett folk i förändring - skildrat genom några individers öden.[...]

Niminovellissa 20 vuotta Yhdysvalloissa asunut Hanfeng palaa Kiinaan ollakseen vanhenevan äitinsä, entisen professorin, lähellä. Pojan poissaollessa äidille on pitänyt seuraa tämän entinen oppilas, Siyu. Nyt äiti toivoo Hanfengin ja Siyun, kahden hänelle tärkeimmän ihmisen, avioituvan. S[...]