Name: Gold Boy, Emerald Girl: Stories
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Author: Li Yiyun
ISBN: 9780812980158

Type

Physical Book

Author

Yiyun Li

Author

Li Yiyun

Publisher

Random House Trade

Year

2011

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.5 x 1.4 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9780812980158

Synopsis "Gold Boy, Emerald Girl: Stories "

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-aged son to a favorite student, unaware of the student's true affections. A lifelong bachelor finds kinship with a man wrongly accused of an indiscretion. Six women establish a private investigating agency to battle extramarital affairs in Beijing. Written in lyrical prose and with stunning honesty, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl introduces us to worlds strange and familiar, creating a mesmerizing and vibrant landscape of life.

Yiyun Li

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Yiyun Li (李翊雲) was born on November 4, 1972 in Beijing, China. She initially trained in the sciences, earning a bachelor's degree at Peking University and a master's in immunology at the University of Iowa. However, her passion for writing led her to switch paths, obtaining a master's in creative writing at the same university.

Li writes exclusively in English and her works have been translated into more than 20 languages. Among her novels are The Vagrants and Where Reasons End, as well as her collection of stories A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, which was adapted into a film by Wayne Wang.

She has received numerous awards, including the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Windham-Campbell Prize, and a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2022, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Currently, Li is a professor of creative writing at Princeton University. Her personal life has deeply influenced her work; after facing episodes of depression and the tragic loss of her two children to suicide in 2017 and 2024, respectively, she has explored these themes in her writings, such as in her novel Where Reasons End.

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Li Yiyun

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Yiyun Li (Beijing, 1972) es una aclamada escritora y profesora china-estadounidense, reconocida por su estilo sobrio y profundo que explora la soledad, el dolor y la historia china. Tras formarse en inmunología, emigró a EE. UU. en 1996, cambiando la ciencia por la escritura en inglés. Es autora de numerosas novelas y ensayos premiados.

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