Kinder Than Solitude, Yiyun Li
Kinder Than Solitude, Yiyun Li
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Kinder Than Solitude

Author: Yiyun Li

Narrator: Angela Lin

Unabridged: 12 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/25/2014


Synopsis

When Moran, Ruyu, and Boyang were young, they were involved in a mysterious "accident" in which a friend of theirs was poisoned. Grown up, the three friends are separated by distance and personal estrangement. Moran and Ruyu live in the United States, Boyang in China; all three are haunted by what really happened in their youth, and by doubt about themselves. In California, Ruyu helps a local woman care for her family and home, and avoids entanglements, as she has done all her life. In Wisconsin, Moran visits her ex-husband, whose kindness once overcame her flight into solitude. In Beijing, Boyang struggles to deal with an inability to love, and with the outcome of what happened among the three friends 20 years ago.

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 Jill on March 01, 2014

“Perhaps there is a line in everyone’s life that, once crossed, imparts a certain truth that one has not been able to see before, transforming solitude from a choice into the only possible line of existence.” For four friends, that line was crossed during their late teenage years, when one of them wa......more

Goodreads review by spillingthematcha on July 27, 2023

Nostalgiczna, melancholijna, ale chciałabym po nią sięgnąć jeszcze kiedyś, bo teraz nie potrafiłam jej docenić. Za to ostatnie rozdziały ogromnie mnie poruszyły.......more