Name: Wednesday's Child: Stories
Price: 55.50 NZD
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Author: Li Yiyun; Yiyun Li
ISBN: 9780374606374

Type

Physical Book

Author

Yiyun Li

Publisher

Farrar Straus & Giroux

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780374606374

Wednesday's Child: Stories

Yiyun Li (Author) · Farrar Straus & Giroux · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Wednesday's Child: Stories "

A new collection--about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life--by the award-winning, and inimitable, author of The Book of Goose.A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. Elsewhere, a professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year, a restless woman receives an email from a strange man twice her age and several states away. In Yiyun Li's stories, people strive for an ordinary existence until doing so becomes unsustainable, until the surface cracks and the grand mysterious forces--death, violence, estrangement--come to light. And even everyday life is laden with meaning, studded with indelible details: a filched jar of honey, a mound of wounded ants, a photograph kept hidden for many years, until it must be seen. Li is a truly original writer, an alchemist of opposites: tender and unsentimental, metaphysical and blunt, funny and horrifying, omniscient and unusually aware of just how much we cannot know. Beloved for her novels and memoirs, she returns here to her earliest form, gathering pieces that have appeared in The New Yorker, Zoetrope, and elsewhere. Taken together, the stories in Wednesday's Child, written over the span of a decade, articulate the cost, both material and emotional, of living--exile, assimilation, loss, love--with her trademark unnerving beauty and wisdom.

Yiyun Li

(Author)

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Yiyun Li (李翊雲) was born on November 4, 1972 in Beijing, China. She initially trained in the sciences, earning a bachelor's degree at Peking University and a master's in immunology at the University of Iowa. However, her passion for writing led her to switch paths, obtaining a master's in creative writing at the same university.

Li writes exclusively in English and her works have been translated into more than 20 languages. Among her novels are The Vagrants and Where Reasons End, as well as her collection of stories A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, which was adapted into a film by Wayne Wang.

She has received numerous awards, including the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Windham-Campbell Prize, and a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2022, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Currently, Li is a professor of creative writing at Princeton University. Her personal life has deeply influenced her work; after facing episodes of depression and the tragic loss of her two children to suicide in 2017 and 2024, respectively, she has explored these themes in her writings, such as in her novel Where Reasons End.

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