A richly detailed portrait of a strange place, a provincial city force-planted in the rural landscape; just outside the city lie the mountain and the domain of villagers and peasants who remained behind while others were transplanted to inaugurate the new faux-urban grid. The falsity of the setti...
Тежка, мрачна, черна, песимистична книга, която ми приседна почти в буквалния смисъл. Хем харесвам описателния и изчистен, лековат начин по който Июн Ли разказва, хем се чудех реалистични ли са всички нещастия, които се струпват на главите на героите. Парадоксални са постъпките, размислите, желан...
Na prvi pogled po koricama, knjiga mi izgleda vedro, opušteno, jel djetelina sa četiri lista (nemam pojma) al me na nju podsjeća. Naslov simpatičan.Knjiga se sastoji od 9 priča. Ovo je zbirka priča o usamljenosti čovjeka. Sviđa mi se stil pisanja i gotovo svaka priča me ostavila u razmišljanju. N...
My first unbeknownst exposure to Yiyun Li was in the Wayne Wang film, The Princess of Nebraska, which was based on Li’s story of the same name. My first thought was if it was your decision to cast Boshen as a white guy in the film then shame on you Wayne Wang! Boshen is supposed to be Chinese! I ...
(This review was originally published on The Rumpus: http://therumpus.net/2009/03/no-one-i...)When I think of Beijing in 1998, I think of a worn-out train bound for a town fifty miles from the capital. Across from me sat a Chinese man in his late twenties who, for a while, would not meet my eyes....