Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li

Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li

The second collection of stories from Yiyun Li, author of the Guardian First Book Award-winning A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Vagrants.

Chosen as a Book of the Year by AS Byatt and Pankaj Mishra in the Guardian, and by the Sunday Times

‘Li was named by Granta as one of the best writers under 35, and she’s fabulous – nobody else has such an instinct for the tension between tradition and modernity…Modern China convulsed by progress, is wonderfully evoked.’ Times

‘To read any one of these stories is to receive proof of Li’s mastery. They are exquisitely made, and function with a vast, metronomic precision that eschews anything inessential.’ Independent on Sunday

‘Yiyun Li’s beautifully crafted Munro-like stories of loss and betrayal show the human cost of living in a changing world.’ Sunday Times

‘Comparisons to Chekov and to William Trevor hold true … Li is an exceptional writer.’ Sunday Telegraph

‘From its start you are reading in the presence of a bracingly clarified mind which produces prose of the utmost sparseness’ Scotsman

‘Attuned to every nuance of sadness, Li writes delicately about death, brutality and leave-taking’ Independent

Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing and came to the United States in 1996. Her debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and Guardian First Book Award. Her novel, The Vagrants, was shortlisted for Dublin IMPAC Award. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. She was selected by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists under 35, and was named by The New Yorker as one of the top 20 writers under 40. She lives in Oakland, California with her husband and their two sons.

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ISBN 13	9780007303106
ISBN 10	0007303106
Title	Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
Author	Yiyun Li
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2011-09-01
Number of pages	256
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.