Wednesdays Child

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A dazzling new treasury of short stories, spanning 15 years of writing, from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The Book of Goose and Where Reasons End
Yiyun Li is one of our most celebrated living authors.Wednesday's Child collects together for the first time 15 stunning short stories and a remarkable novella, never before published in the UK, gathered from 15 years of her writing.

These stories carry the weight of history, sorrows, secrets and all things unresolved and unresolvable in life, but they are also shot through with a seductive, wry humour. They do not focus on one singular moment or slice or life, but a complex of many lives, both in the past and the present.

Beautifully affecting, wry and profound, Wednesdays Child is a richly drawn collection that readers will cherish from the winner of the Sunday Times Short Story Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.

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Praise for Yiyun Li

Any new book by Yiyun Li is cause for celebration, but now more than ever do we need the clarity and humaneness of her vision Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend

Li writes with a shimmering and deeply felt precision Guardian

Li is extraordinary a storyteller of the first order Li inhabits the lives of her characters with such force and compassion that one one cannot help but marvel at her remarkable talents Junot Daz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

'Yiyun Li writes deeply, drolly, and with elegance . . . She is one of my favorite writers' Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion

Author Bio

Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing, China, and came to the United States in 1996. She is the recipient of several prizes for her writing and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. Lis stories have been published in the New Yorker, the Paris Review and elsewhere. She lives in Iowa City, USA, with her husband and their two sons.