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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.
by Li, Yiyun
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 2005. First edition of Li's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Life provides more happiness than we ever know. We have to train ourselves to look for it. For Adrienne with warmest regards, Yiyun Li." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Allison Saltzman. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is the debut short story collection by Yiyun Li. It is the author's first book of fiction. Two of the stories were adapted into films: the title story and The Princess of Nebraska, both directed by Wayne Wang. Writing in The Guardian, Michel Faber notes that "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is the best possible revenge against the insular simple-mindedness that once ruled Chinese literature." "Li is a valuable firsthand guide to this decade of mind-bending change" and "Li's ability to write about both her native and adoptive countries [...] makes her a skillful double agent" (The New York Times).
Synopsis
Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing and attended Peking University. She came to the United States in 1996 to study medicine and started writing two years later. After receiving a master’s degree in immunology from the University of Iowa, she attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she received an MFA. Li is a recipient of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for new writers. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker , The Paris Review , Glimmer Train , and Prospect . She lives in Oakland, California with her husband and their two sons. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 102837
- Title
- A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.
- Author
- Li, Yiyun
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- a-thousand-years-of-good-prayers, first edition signed
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