A thousand years of good prayers : stories / Yiyun Li.
"In this collection, Yiyun Li illuminates how mythology, politics, history, and culture intersect with personality to create fate. From the bustling heart of Beijing, to a fast-food restaurant in Chicago, to the barren expanse of Inner Mongolia, [this collection] reveals worlds both foreign and familiar"--Dust jacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 081297333X
- ISBN: 9780812973334
- Physical Description: 219 page ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2005]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes a Reader's Guide. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Extra -- After a life -- Immortality -- The princess of Nebraska -- Love in the marketplace -- Son -- The arrangement -- Death is not a bad joke if told the right way -- Persimmons -- A thousand years of good prayers. |
Awards Note: | New Yorker "20 under 40" List 2010 ; Hemingway Foundation Award Winner 2006 ; Guardian First Book Award Winner 2006 ; Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize Nominee 2006. |
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Subject: | Chinese Americans. Chinese Americans > Fiction. |
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