Kinder Than Solitude A Novel Yiyun Li by Yiyun Li 9780812996029, 081299602X instant download after payment.

A profound mystery is at the heart of this magnificent new novel by Yiyun Li, "one of America's best young novelists" (Newsweek) & the celebrated author of The Vagrants, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. 

Moving back & forth in time, & between America today & China in the 1990s, Kinder Than Solitude is the story of three people whose lives are changed by a murder one of them may have committed. As Boyang observes, "Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime."

When Moran, Ruyu, & Boyang were young, they were involved in a mysterious "accident" in which a friend of theirs was poisoned. Now grown up & estranged, the three friends are separated by these events, & by time & distance. Moran & Ruyu live in the United States, Boyang in China, yet all three are haunted by what really happened that day, & by doubt about themselves. In California, Ruyu helps Celia care for her family & home,...

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YIYUN LI is the author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers & The Vagrants. A native of Beijing & a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, she is the recipient of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the Whiting Writers’ Award, & the Guardian First Book Award. In 2007, Granta named her one of the best American novelists under thirty-five. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, & elsewhere. She teaches writing at the University of California, Davis, & lives in Oakland, California, with her husband & their two sons.