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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird by Ali Smith, Tommy Orange, Naomi Alderman, Helen Oyeyemi, Keith Ridgway, Yiyun Li, Charlie Kaufman, Elif Batuman, Leone Ross, Joshua Cohen
Category: Fiction
A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death*Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, Esquire and the New European*Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the gre ...Show more
A Sheltered Woman by Yiyun Li
Category: Short Stories
Winner of the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize Auntie Mei is a live-in nanny for newborns and their mothers. She has worked for a hundred and twenty-six families and looked after a hundred and thirty-one babies, one set of clients easily replaced by the next. But the hundred and thirty-second baby and ...Show more
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li
Category: Fiction
Brilliant and original, 'A Thousand Years of Good Prayers' introduces a remarkable first collection of stories about China from an author set to become a major literary talent. In this extraordinary first collection, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and guil ...Show more
Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li
Category: Biography
'Profoundly engaging in depth, with remarkable subtlety and rare, limpid beauty. A must-read' - Mary GaitskillA luminous memoir about reading, writing and how to find meaning in a lifeWritten over two years while the author battled depression, Dear Friend is a painful and yet richly affirming examinatio ...Show more
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li
Category: Biography
A luminous memoir from the award-winning author of The Vagrants and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers 'What a long way it is from one life to another. Yet why write if not for that distance?' Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this is a memoir of a life lived with books. Written over t ...Show more
Fight of the Century - Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases by Michael Chabon (Editor); Geraldine Brooks; Yaa Gyasi; Sergio De La Pava; Dave Eggers; Timothy Egan; Li Yiyun; Meg Wolitzer; Ann Patchett; Héctor Tobar; Aleksandar Hemon; Elizabeth Strout; Ayelet Waldman (Editor); Rabih Alameddine; Moriel Rothman-Zecher; Jonathan Lethem; Salman Rushdie; Lauren Groff; Jennifer Egan; Scott Turow; Morgan Parker; Victor Lavalle; Michael Cunningham; Dave Cole (Foreword by); Neil Gaiman; Jesmyn Ward; Moses Sumney; George Saunders; Marlon James; William Finnegan; Anthony Doerr; C. J. Anders; Brenda J. Childs; Andrew Sean Greer; Viet Thanh Nguyen; Louise Erdrich; Adrian Nicole LeBlanc; Jacqueline woodson; Brit Bennett; Steven Okazaki; David Handler
Category: History
The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this "forceful, beautifully written" (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. O ...Show more
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li
Category: Fiction
In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li, a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner, a MacArthur Fellow, and one of "The New Yorker"'s top 20 fiction writers under 40, gives us exquisite stories in which politics and folklore magnificently illuminate the human condition. A professor introduces her middle-a ...Show more
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li
Category: Fiction
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. The stories in this collection, like the stories in A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, are mostly set in China. The country portrayed here is the China of th ...Show more
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li
Category: Fiction
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. The stories in this collection, like the stories in A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, are mostly set in China. The country portrayed here is the China of th ...Show more
Kinder Than Solitude by Yiyun Li
Category: Fiction
The new novel from Yiyun Li, author of The Vagrants and the Guardian First Book Award-winning A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. When Moran, Ruyu, and Boyang were young, they were involved in a mysterious 'accident' in which a young woman was poisoned. Now grown up, the three friends are separated by thi ...Show more
Kinder Than Solitude by Yiyun Li
Category: Fiction
The new novel from Yiyun Li, author of The Vagrants and the Guardian First Book Award-winning A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. When Moran, Ruyu, and Boyang were young, they were involved in a mysterious 'accident' in which a young woman was poisoned. Now grown up, the three friends are separated by thi ...Show more