Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, Yiyun Li
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, Yiyun Li
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Gold Boy, Emerald Girl

Author: Yiyun Li

Narrator: Angela Yaegashi Lin

Unabridged: 7 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/23/2010

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories


Synopsis

Author Yiyun Li, honored as one of Granta’s 21 Best Young American Novelists under age 35, continues her illustrious career with this insightful collection of short stories. With compelling visions of the scrapes and unpleasant situations in which people find themselves, Li’s works trigger emotional responses of all types—whether through a tale of unrequited love, an unburdening of guilt, or something else entirely. These heartrending stories are certain to strike a chord with listeners as they recognize aspects of their own lives.

About Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li is the author of several works of fiction—Wednesday’s Child; The Book of Goose; Must I Go; Where Reasons End; Kinder Than Solitude; Gold Boy, Emerald Girl; The Vagrants; and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers—and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards, including a PEN/Faulkner Award, a PEN/Malamud Award, a PEN/Hemingway Award, a PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize, and she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Patrizia on June 10, 2019

Ambientati nella Cina contemporanea, in cui le tradizioni resistono a fianco del nuovo, questi racconti colpiscono per la naturale semplicità della prosa e per la profondità con cui indagano sul senso della vita. Amori vissuti o solo sognati, la scelta della solitudine, il rispetto per le persone an......more

Goodreads review by Edward on August 09, 2011

This is one of the loneliest collections of stories I've ever read. It's also remarkably beautiful, if only because it manages to never fall into despair. The will to go on, to keep living, even when all love is gone, even after realising that love was only a word one never could believe in or that......more

Goodreads review by shubiektywnie on July 09, 2022

3,5 Nie jest to mój ulubiony zbiór, ale i tak można wyczuć w nim typową prozę Li: wrażliwą, spokojną, a mimo wszystko uderzającą. Wydaje mi się, że zbiór ma nieco szkatułkową formę. Opowiadania nie nawiązują do siebie znacząco, ale jednak przewijają się przez nie podobne imiona i motywy. Bardzo dużo......more