A Thousand Years of Good Prayers Condition:Well Read though she still longs for

though she still longs for love and friendship

” (The Times [London])

Entranced by their beauty and mystery

the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened

allegations of poisoning

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers Condition:Well Read though she still longs forBrilliant 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 guilt. In 'Immortality', winner of the Paris Review prize, a young man bears a striking resemblance to the dictator, and so finds a strange kind of calling.