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
Brilliant and original,<i>A Thousand Years of Good Prayers</i> introduces a remarkable first collection of stories about China from an author set to become a major literary talent... 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