A Thousand Years of Good Prayers 在线电子书 图书标签: 李翊云 短篇小说 美国华人 小说 YiyunLi 短篇 文学 英文
发表于2024-12-22
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#3-4 stars. Def overrated.
评分my favorite stories: The Princess of Nebraska, Love in the Marketplace, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
评分如果我不是中国读者,我会给四星的。
评分I liked Extra(school), After a Life(ending) and Death is Not a Bad Joke(quadrangle life) over the other stories. When ever Li forced non-relevant historical context in, the stories were unpalatable.
评分还蛮queer的,(self-) translation的问题也很有趣。
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 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, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers reveals worlds both foreign and familiar, with heartbreaking honesty and in beautiful prose.
“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.
“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.
These and other daring stories form a mesmerizing tapestry of revelatory fiction by an unforgettable writer.
(标题是解释《千年敬祈a thousand years of good prayers》的含义。与正文内容无关。起标题神马的最讨厌了。) 阅读李翊云的这本处女作,最亲切之处永远是那些译用了中国成语谚语歌谣的地方:如鲠在喉、如履薄冰、买椟还珠的故事、“人要脸树要皮”、“一二三四五,上山打老虎...
评分李翊云并不喜欢读者过多在意她的政治立场,中国的历史背景无可避免是她的小说的潜在舞台,但作品中并没有故意取巧的痕迹,正如她自己所说,她“不是在解剖大陆”而是在解剖人性。李翊云最喜欢的两位作家分别是爱尔兰著名小说家威廉•特雷佛(William Trevor) 和约翰•迈...
评分There is a perception that the intension of some Asian-American writers' writing is to satisfy the western readers' curiosity towards China. Therefore, the common theme of this kind of works is to show the "dark" said of China, for example, the untolerant p...
评分There're so many reviews on Amazon.com which discuss the political aspects of the novel. But what I see the most is the author's attitudes to society, humanity and most essentially, love and marriage hidden behind her subtle and elegant lines. If you have r...
评分A Thousand Years of Good Prayers 在线电子书 pdf 下载 txt下载 epub 下载 mobi 下载 2024