

Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
Author: Yiyun Li
Narrator: Angela Yaegashi Lin
Unabridged: 7 hr 49 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books, LLC
Published: 09/23/2010
Categories: Fiction, Short Stories
Author: Yiyun Li
Narrator: Angela Yaegashi Lin
Unabridged: 7 hr 49 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books, LLC
Published: 09/23/2010
Categories: Fiction, Short Stories
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.
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
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
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