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

Profoundly engaging in depth, with remarkable subtlety and rare, limpid beauty. A must-read'' - Mary Gaitskillbr>br>A luminous memoir about reading, writing and how to find meaning in a lifebr>br>Written over two years while the author battled depression, Dear Friend is a painful and yet richly affirming examination of what makes life worth living. Interweaving personal memoir with a wide-ranging celebration of writers and books, this is a journey of recovery through literature.br>br>From William Trevor and Katherine Mansfield to Kierkegaard and Larkin, Yiyun Li traces the themes of time and transformation, presence and absence. Drawing on personal experiences from her difficult childhood in China, she constructs a beautiful, interior exploration of selfhood and what is required to choose life.>

About the author

Yiyun Li is the author of three novels, Where Reasons End, The Vagrants and Kinder Than Solitude, and two short-story collections, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, as well as the memoir, Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She has won literary awards including the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the Guardian First Book Award, and was listed among Granta's 21 Best of Young American Novelists 2007. Her stories have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review and elsewhere. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of a Windham-Campbell Prize and a Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University.

Product details

• Authors: Yiyun Li, Li Yiyun
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780241978665
• ISBN: 978-0-241-97866-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Chinesische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Memoirs, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Depression, Coping with illness & specific conditions, Coping with illness and specific health conditions, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / General