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Wednesday's Child
- Stories
- Narrateur(s): Yiyun Li
- Durée: 9 h et 38 min
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Long-listed, Barnes and Noble Best New Books of the Year 2023
Long-listed, New Yorker Best Books of the Year, 2023
Long-listed, Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year, 2023
Long-listed, Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, 2023
Long-listed, NPR Best Book of the Year, 2023
Long-listed, Library Journal Best Books of the Year, 2023
L.A. Times Book Prize—Finalist, 2023
Long-listed, Esquire Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2023
This program is read by the author and includes an audio-only bonus story, Call Me Ishmael's Mother.
A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the award-winning, and inimitable, author of The Book of Goose.
A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she’s lost. Elsewhere, a professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year, a restless woman receives an email from a strange man twice her age and several states away. In Yiyun Li’s stories, people strive for an ordinary existence until doing so becomes unsustainable, until the surface cracks and the grand mysterious forces—death, violence, estrangement—come to light. And even everyday life is laden with meaning, studded with indelible details: a filched jar of honey, a mound of wounded ants, a photograph kept hidden for many years, until it must be seen.
Li is a truly original writer, an alchemist of opposites: tender and unsentimental, metaphysical and blunt, funny and horrifying, omniscient and unusually aware of just how much we cannot know. Beloved for her novels and memoirs, she returns here to her earliest form, gathering pieces that have appeared in The New Yorker, Zoetrope, and elsewhere. Taken together, the stories in Wednesday's Child, written over the span of a decade, articulate the cost, both material and emotional, of living—exile, assimilation, loss, love—with her trademark unnerving beauty and wisdom.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Ce que les critiques en disent
“Splendid and elegantly observed . . . Distinguished by their fully realized characters, nuanced narration, and striking portraits of everyday struggles, these stories find Li at the top of her game.”—Publisher’s Weekly (starred)
“An infinite variety of ways to survive—or, at least, march through—devastating loss are cataloged in Li’s cool and measured litany of pain . . . The cumulative mass of the stories is sobering, a gorgeous almanac . . . Quiet, beautiful accounts of journeys through hell.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred)