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... Zobraziť viac
Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnes, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised - the place that Fabienne helped Agnes escape ten years ago. Now, Agnes is free to tell her story... Zobraziť viac
A propulsive, seductive new novel about friendship, exploitation and intimacy from the prize-winning author of Where Reasons End... Zobraziť viac
V povídkovém souboru Tisíc let vroucích modliteb se spisovatelka soustředí na osobní dramata obyčejných lidí, politická realita totalitního režimu zůstává jakoby v pozadí... Mnohem podstatnější roli zde hrají rodinné vztahy, emocionální vazby a generační Zobraziť viac
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 imagined conversation with the child she has lost. He is as sharp and... Zobraziť viac
In this extraordinary first collection, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and... Zobraziť viac
