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The Book of Goose

Yiyun Li

A propulsive, seductive new novel about friendship, exploitation and intimacy from the prize-winning author of Where Reasons End

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Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life

Yiyun Li

Written over two years while the author battled depression, in and out of hospital, Dear Friend is a painful and yet richly affirming examination of what makes life worth living…

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Where Reasons End

Yiyun Li

A devastating and utterly original portrait of motherhood and grief

‘Days- the easiest possession. The days he had refused would come, one at a time. They would wait, every daybreak…

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The Book of Goose

Yiyun Li

A propulsive, gripping new novel about fate, art, exploitation, and intimacy from the award-winning author of Where Reasons End

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Must I Go

Yiyun Li

Richly expansive and deeply moving, an intimate novel of secret lives and painful histories from the critically acclaimed author of Where Reasons End

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Wednesday’s Child

Yiyun Li

Finalist for the Story Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by Los Angeles Times, Vulture, Esquire, NPR, and Kirkus…

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Wednesday’s Child

Yiyun Li

'Any book by Yiyun Li is a cause for celebration' Sigrid Nunez
'One of our finest living authors' New York Times

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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories

Yiyun Li

In this collection of stories, the author illuminates how mythology, politics, history, and culture intersect with personality to create fate.

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Gilgamesh

Yiyun Li

These stories are told using illustrations from talented designers. The basic objective is to introduce the classics to the newer generations, but it is also intended for the whole family…

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Gold Boy, Emerald Girl: Stories

Yiyun Li

Includes A Reader’s Guide (p. 227-235).

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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Hezar Sal Doaye Kheyr

Yiyun Li

Short Stories By Yiyun Li, Translated by Arezou Mokhtarian

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The Vagrants: A Novel

Yiyun Li

The astonishing first novel from the author of the award-winning story collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers weaves together the delicate moments between mothers and sons, husbands and wives…

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Kinder Than Solitude: A Novel

Yiyun Li

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

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Must I Go

Yiyun Li

Richly expansive and deeply moving, an intimate novel of secret lives and painful histories from the critically acclaimed author of Where Reasons End

Lilia Liska is eighty-one. She has shrewdly…

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Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li’s searing personal story of hospitalizations for depression and thoughts of suicide is interlaced with reflections on the solace and affirmations of life and personhood that Li found in…

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Must I Go: A Novel

Yiyun Li

One of our major novelists (Salman Rushdie) tells the story of a woman reflecting on her uncompromising life, and the life of a former lover, in this provocative novel.

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The Book of Goose

Yiyun Li

A propulsive, gripping new novel about fate, art, exploitation, and intimacy by the award-winning author of Where Reasons End.

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The Book of Goose

Yiyun Li

A propulsive, gripping new novel about fate, art, exploitation, and intimacy from the award-winning author of Where Reasons End

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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

Yiyun Li

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.

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The Book of Goose

Yiyun Li

A propulsive, gripping new novel about fate, art, exploitation, and intimacy by the award-winning author of Where Reasons End.

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What Do I Know?

Michel de Montaigne

A selection of Michel de Montaigne's most profound, searching essays, in a new translation and stunning hardback edition

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A Study Guide for Yiyun Li’s Immortality

Cengage Learning Gale

A Study Guide for Yiyun Li’s Immortality, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…

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Wednesday’s Child

Yiyun Li

"A new collection-about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life-by the award-winning and inimitable author of The Book of Goose"--

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Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li,A Public Space

A collective 85 day journey of reading with contributors from around the globe.

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W-3

Bette Howland

First published by The Viking Press, 1974 –Title page verso.

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W-3

Bette Howland

First published by The Viking Press, 1974 –Title page verso.

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W-3: A Memoir

Bette Howland

Bette Howland’s illuminating and bracing account of life in a psych ward, which marked her powerful entrance onto the literary scene, now with an introduction by Yiyun Li, author of…

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W-3: A Memoir

Bette Howland

Bette Howland’s illuminating and bracing account of life in a psych ward, which marked her powerful entrance onto the literary scene, now with an introduction by Yiyun Li, author of…

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Hunts in Dreams

Tom Drury,Yiyun Li

One of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists returns to the American Midwest with a powerful and often funny chronicle of one October weekend in the lives of a precarious family.

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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

Ali Smith, Tommy Orange, Naomi Alderman, Helen Oyeyemi, Keith Ridgway, Yiyun Li, Charlie Kaufman, Elif Batuman, Leone Ross

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.

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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

Ali Smith, Tommy Orange, Naomi Alderman, Helen Oyeyemi, Keith Ridgway, Yiyun Li, Charlie Kaufman, Elif Batuman, Leone Ross

A collection of brand-new short stories written by major international writers and inspired by Kafka - to commemorate one hundred years since his death

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The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun

Lu Xun

Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature. This book presents translations of…

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Westlands: A Water Story

Randi Lynn Beach

Showcasing California’s Central Valley, Westlands uses documentary photography to examine the danger drought and water policies represent to farming. Moving beyond simplified narratives of environmentalist versus farmer or government versus…

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