{"product_id":"a-thousand-years-of-good-prayers","title":"A Thousand Years of Good Prayers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Thousand Years of Good Prayers\u003c\/em\u003e introduces a remarkable first collection of stories about China from an author set to become a major literary talent. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this extraordinary first collection, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and guilt. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eImmortality\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Paris Review prize, a young man bears a striking resemblance to the dictator, and so finds a strange kind of calling.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eExtra\u003c\/em\u003e, first published in the New Yorker, a Chinese woman, alone in middle age, befriends a young boy who has become an outcast in a remote country school. In their friendship, we see how love can begin to overcome the strictures that dominate their lives. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn turn horrifying and breathtakingly lyrical, Yiyun Li, a new and talented young Chinese writer, confronts the silence that dominated the history of her country, and illuminates how mythology, politics, history and culture intersect with personality.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShe leaves us with an enduring vision of a country undergoing tremendous change.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yiyun Li","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43666940166401,"sku":"9780007196630","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate_74.png?v=1688132365","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.pro\/products\/a-thousand-years-of-good-prayers","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}