When reading about other people’s lives it’s a comfort.

Visiting Beijing you can go to the Maan Coffee, http://www.timeoutbeijing.com/venue/Food__Drink-Cafes__Teahouses/16636/Maan-Coffee.html the strangest coffee shop y’ve ever visited. Its honey toast is bathed in salted butter (and nestled within a crust that comes with three dipping sauces of maple syrup, condensed milk and berry compote). This understated dessert earns every mouthful. Here – in the city where the poet Li Yiyun grew up – romantics can rendezvous (or lounge with a laptop), feeling hopeful. But don’t forget: whatever happens you will find something to make you swoon.

She had a breakdown in 2012, attempting suicide twice. After leaving the hospital, for a whole year she focused on reading several biographies and diaries. LI YIYUN was born in a November day, 1972. She is a Chinese American writer http://www.yiyunli.com/ Her novels have won several awards. She grew up in Beijing (China), where her mother was a teacher and her father worked as a nuclear physicist. In 1996, she moved to the US, where in 2005 she earned a MFA degrees in creative nonfiction and fiction. Two of the stories from her novel A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, were adapted into 2007 films.

There is a sense of authenticity in her portrayals, such as the father who hides his job from his own family. Her artful storytelling leaves you with a unsettled feeling, as she captures the emotions around China’s recent years. In a few pages LI YIYUN captures the essence of contemporary Chinese worldviews. For most Chinese people how to care for one’s parents are the issue that matter. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, introduces you a new writer whose stories are set in China (and among Chinese Americans, in the United States). In this collection, autor illuminates how history and culture intersect with personality, to create fate. From the heart of Beijing, to a fast-food restaurant in Chicago, this novel reveals worlds both foreign and familiar.

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