A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
In China there is a saying: “It takes 3,000 years of prayers to place your head side by side with your loved one’s on the pillow.”
This collection of ten short stories delivers a truly insightful look on modern Chinese history through the eyes of common people living during the last hundred years.
Yiyun LI manages to cover the sensitive topics of the Communist Revolution, Great Leap Forward, Tian’anmen Square and homosexuality in a way that points no finger yet still tells it as it is.
One story best read each night before bed. Well worth a read.
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