{"product_id":"a-thousand-years-of-good-prayers-stories-paperback","title":"A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYiyun Li\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrilliant and original, \u003cb\u003eA Thousand Years of Good Prayers\u003c\/b\u003e 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 illuminates how mythology, politics, history, and culture intersect with personality to create fate. From the bustling heart of Beijing, to a fast-food restaurant in Chicago, to the barren expanse of Inner Mongolia, \u003cb\u003eA Thousand Years of Good Prayers\u003c\/b\u003e reveals worlds both foreign and familiar, with heartbreaking honesty and in beautiful prose. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Immortality,\" winner of The Paris Review's Plimpton Prize for new writers, tells the story of a young man who bears a striking resemblance to a dictator and so finds a calling to immortality. In \"The Princess of Nebraska,\" a man and a woman who were both in love with a young actor in China meet again in America and try to reconcile the lost love with their new lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"After a Life\" illuminates the vagaries of marriage, parenthood, and gender, unfolding the story of a couple who keep a daughter hidden from the world. And in \"A Thousand Years of Good Prayers,\" in which a man visits America for the first time to see his recently divorced daughter, only to discover that all is not as it seems, Li boldly explores the effects of communism on language, faith, and an entire people, underlining transformation in its many meanings and incarnations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese and other daring stories form a mesmerizing tapestry of revelatory fiction by an unforgettable writer.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYiyun Li\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of six works of fiction--\u003ci\u003eMust I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Gold Boy, Emerald Girl\u003c\/i\u003e--and the memoir \u003ci\u003eDear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of many awards, including a PEN\/Hemingway Award, a PEN\/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize, and was featured in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e's 20 Under 40 fiction issue. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe O. Henry Prize Stories, \u003c\/i\u003e among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757741932832,"sku":"9780812973334","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9ec927ff88510fe39935556386e90853.webp?v=1780110666","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-thousand-years-of-good-prayers-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}