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Dear Friend, From My Life I Write To You In Your Life

by Yiyun Li
language: english
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, February of 2018 ‧
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A luminous memoir about reading, writing and how to find meaning in a life.

Written over two years while the author battled depression, Dear Friend is a painful and yet richly affirming examination of what makes life worth living. Interweaving personal memoir with a wide-ranging celebration of writers and books, this is a journey of recovery through literature.

From William Trevor and Katherine Mansfield to Kierkegaard and Larkin, Yiyun Li traces the themes of time and transformation, presence and absence. Drawing on personal experiences from her difficult childhood in China, she constructs a beautiful, interior exploration of selfhood and what is required to choose life.

«Profoundly engaging in depth, with remarkable subtlety and rare, limpid beauty. A must-read»
Mary Gaitskill

Dear Friend, From My Life I Write To You In Your Life

by Yiyun Li

Property Description
ISBN: 9780241978665
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Release Date: February of 2018
Language: English
Dimensions: 128 x 168 x 13 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 224
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Social Sciences and Humanities > Others
EAN: 9780241978665

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li nasceu em Pequim, em 1972, e vive nos Estados Unidos desde 1996. É professora de Literatura e Escrita na Universidade de Princeton.
Estreou-se com o livro de contos A thousand years of good prayers, distinguido com vários prémios: PEN/Hemingway Award, Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, Guardian First Book Award ou Whitting Award. Viria a publicar depois as coletâneas Gold boy, emerald girl e Wednesday’s child (finalista do Pulitzer Prize). O seu primeiro romance, The vagrants, foi finalista do International Dublin Literary Award. Seguiram-se Kinder than solitude, Where reasons end (PEN/Jean Stein Book Award), Must I go e The book of goose (PEN/Faukner Award for Fiction). Publicou ainda os livros de memórias Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life e Tudo na natureza apenas continua, o qual marca a sua estreia em Portugal, na Alfaguara.
Yiyun Li tem recebido prestigiadas distinções, como a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship e a Guggenheim Fellowship. Foi integrada pela Granta, em 2007, na seleção dos 21 melhores jovens romancistas americanos e, em 2010, a New Yorker distinguiu-a nos «20 under 40». Foi galardoada com o American Academy of Arts and Letters’s Award, com o Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Fiction e com o PEN/Malamud Award. Os seus livros estão traduzidos em mais de vinte línguas.

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