In luminous prose, award-winning author Yiyun Li weaves together the lives of unforgettable characters who are forced to make moral choices, and choices for survival, in China in the late 1970s. Shortlisted for the 2011 International...

Yiyun Li is the author of two novels, The Vagrants and Kinder Than Solitude, and two short-story collections, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, as well as the memoir, Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in...

A fearless writer confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and love, "a masterpiece by a master" (Elizabeth McCracken, Vanity Fair)."Li has converted the messy and devastating stuff of life into a...

'A dazzling, subtle, skilful knockout - I loved it' Charlotte Mendelson 'One of the great writers of our time' Tash Aw 'Wonderfully strange and alive' Jon McGregor A propulsive, seductive new novel about friendship, exploitation and...

Long-listed for the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice.A Slate Top Ten Book of the YearA TIME Best Fiction Book of 2022Named a...

Peking, Ende der achtziger Jahre: Drei ungleiche Freunde wachsen im gleichen Häuserblock auf. Ruyu, ein streng katholisch erzogenes Waisenmädchen aus der Provinz, und die wohlhabenden, aber vernachlässigten Boyang und Moran. Doch als...

PEN/Hemingway Award und Guardian First Book Award Zehn meisterhafte Erzählungen über das komplizierte Verhältnis zwischen Menschen, die einander lieben wollen und sich doch nicht verstehen: Mütter und Söhne, Töchter und Väter - in der...

A brilliant writer confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and love. The narrator of Where Reasons End writes, "I had but one delusion, which I held on to with all my willpower: We once gave Nikolai a...

Brilliant and original, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers introduces a remarkable new writer whose breathtaking stories are set in China and among Chinese Americans in the United States. In this rich, astonishing collection, Yiyun Li...

Richly expansive and deeply moving, an intimate novel of secret lives and painful histories from one of the finest storytellers we have'This brilliant novel examines lives lived, losses accumulated, and the slipperiness of perception....

The much-anticipated first novel from the Guardian First Book Award-winning Chinese writer. von Li, Yiyun

Richly expansive and deeply moving, an intimate novel of secret lives and painful histories from one of the finest storytellers we have'This brilliant novel examines lives lived, losses accumulated, and the slipperiness of perception....