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

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

In her first memoir, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li offers a journey of recovery through literature: a letter from a writer to like-minded readers.

â‚¬Å“A meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life.â‚¬Ââ‚¬"Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead

â‚¬Å“What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance?â‚¬Â

Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this is a luminous account of a life lived with books. Written over two years while the author battled suicidal depression, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life is a painful and yet richly affirming examination of what makes life worth living.

Yiyun Li grew up in China and has spent her adult life as an immigrant in a country not her own. She has been a scientist, an author, a mother, a daughterâ‚¬"and through it all she has been sustained by a profound connection with the writers and books she loves. From William Trevor and Katherine Mansfield to SÂ¸ren Kierkegaard and Philip Larkin, Dear Friend is a journey through the deepest themes that bind these writers together.

Interweaving personal experiences with a wide-ranging homage to her most cherished literary influences, Yiyun Li confronts the two most essential questions of her identity: Why write? And why live?

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

â‚¬Å“Li has stared in the face of much that is beautiful and ugly and treacherous and illuminatingâ‚¬"and from her experience she has produced a nourishing exploration of the will to live willfully.â‚¬Ââ‚¬"The Washington Post

â‚¬Å“Liâ‚¬s transformation into a writer . . . is nothing short of astonishing.â‚¬â‚¬Ââ‚¬"The New York Times Book Review

â‚¬Å“An arrestingly lucid, intellectually vital series of contemplations on art, identity, and depression.â‚¬Ââ‚¬"The Boston Globe

â‚¬Å“Li is an exemplary storyteller and this account of her journey back to equilibrium, assisted by her closest companion, literature, is as powerful as any of her award-winning fiction, with the dark fixture of her Beijing past at its centre.â‚¬Ââ‚¬"Financial Times

â‚¬Å“Every writer is a reader first, andÂ Dear FriendÂ is Liâ‚¬s haunted, luminous love letter to the words that shaped her. . . . Her own prose is both lovely and opaque, fitfully illuminating a radiant landscape of the personal and profound.â‚¬Ââ‚¬"Entertainment Weekly

â‚¬Å“Yiyun Liâ‚¬s prose is lean and intense, and her ideas about books and writing are wholly original.â‚¬Ââ‚¬"San Francisco Chronicle
Country USA
Brand Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer Random House Trade Paperbacks
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber part_0399589104
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2018-02-20
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780399589102

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	part_0399589104
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2018-02-20
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780399589102

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

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