Yiyun Li

Wednesday's Child (Bok)

A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. A professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year, a restless woman receives an email from a strange man twice her age and several states away. In Yiyun Li's stories, people strive for an ordinary existence until doing so becomes unsustainable, until the surface cracks and grand mysterious forces - death, violence, estrangement - come to light. And even everyday life is laden with meaning, studded with indelible details: a filched jar of honey, a mound of wounded ants, a photograph kept hidden for many years, until it must be seen. Li is a breathtakingly original writer, an alchemist of opposites: tender and unsentimental, metaphysical and blunt, funny and horrifying, omniscient and yet acutely aware of just how much we cannot know. Beloved for her novels and memoirs, she returns here to her earliest form, gathering short stories and a remarkable novella never before published in the UK. Taken together, the stories in Wednesday's Child articulate the true cost of living with all Li's trademark unnerving beauty and searing wisdom.

Författare:	Yiyun Li
Titel:	Wednesday's Child
Typ:	Bok
Kategori:	Böcker/Skönlitteratur/Utländsk
Releasedatum:	2024-09-12
Registreringsdatum:	2024-06-25
Artikelnummer:	854564
Lagerstatus:	Beställningsvara Leveranstid: från 14 vardagar
EAN:	9780008531904
ISBN:	0008531904
Språk:	Engelska
Bandtyp:	Pocket
Mått(BxHxD):	128x198x17 mm
Omfång:	256 sidor
Vikt:	190 gram
Titel:	Wednesday's Child
Förlag:	HarperCollins UK