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Cover: 9780007196630 | A Thousand Years of Good Prayers | Yiyun Li | Taschenbuch | Englisch
Autor: 9780007196630 | A Thousand Years of Good Prayers | Yiyun Li | Taschenbuch | Englisch
Cover: 9780007196630 | A Thousand Years of Good Prayers | Yiyun Li | Taschenbuch | Englisch
Autor: 9780007196630 | A Thousand Years of Good Prayers | Yiyun Li | Taschenbuch | Englisch
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Taschenbuch von Yiyun Li
Sprache: Englisch

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A beautifully executed debut collection of 10 stories explores the ravages of the Cultural Revolution on modern Chinese, both in China and America. "Extra" portrays the grim plight of Granny Lin, an elderly widow without a pension, whose job as a maid at a boarding school outside Beijing leads to a surprising friendship with one of her young charges, Kang. Li deftly weaves a political message into her human portraits: young Kang, the son of a powerful man and his now "disfavored" first wife, is an "extra"-that is, as useless in the new society as Granny Lin has become. A hollowed-out recluse in the collective apartment block of "Death Is Not a Bad Joke If Told the Right Way," Mr. Pang-once denounced by his work colleagues as being "a dog son of the evil landlord class"-still appears daily at a job where he is no longer even paid, and spends his home life counting grains of rice on his chopsticks. Even the charmed fatherless boy of "Immortality," his face so like Chairman Mao's that he's chosen to be the dictator's impersonator after Mao's death, falls from favor eventually, ending his days as a self-castrated parasite. These are powerful stories that encapsulate tidily epic grief and longing.
A beautifully executed debut collection of 10 stories explores the ravages of the Cultural Revolution on modern Chinese, both in China and America. "Extra" portrays the grim plight of Granny Lin, an elderly widow without a pension, whose job as a maid at a boarding school outside Beijing leads to a surprising friendship with one of her young charges, Kang. Li deftly weaves a political message into her human portraits: young Kang, the son of a powerful man and his now "disfavored" first wife, is an "extra"-that is, as useless in the new society as Granny Lin has become. A hollowed-out recluse in the collective apartment block of "Death Is Not a Bad Joke If Told the Right Way," Mr. Pang-once denounced by his work colleagues as being "a dog son of the evil landlord class"-still appears daily at a job where he is no longer even paid, and spends his home life counting grains of rice on his chopsticks. Even the charmed fatherless boy of "Immortality," his face so like Chairman Mao's that he's chosen to be the dictator's impersonator after Mao's death, falls from favor eventually, ending his days as a self-castrated parasite. These are powerful stories that encapsulate tidily epic grief and longing.
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Yiyun Li
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 254
Inhalt: 205 S.
ISBN-13: 9780007196630
ISBN-10: 0007196636
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Li, Yiyun
Hersteller: HarperCollins Publishers
Maße: 200 x 129 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Yiyun Li
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.11.2006
Gewicht: 0,18 kg
preigu-id: 102221583
Über den Autor
Yiyun Li
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 254
Inhalt: 205 S.
ISBN-13: 9780007196630
ISBN-10: 0007196636
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Li, Yiyun
Hersteller: HarperCollins Publishers
Maße: 200 x 129 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Yiyun Li
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.11.2006
Gewicht: 0,18 kg
preigu-id: 102221583
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