A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
by Li Yiyun
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0007196628
- ISBN 13
- 9780007196623
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Synopsis
Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing and attended Peking University. She came to the United States in 1996 to study medicine and started writing two years later. After receiving a master’s degree in immunology from the University of Iowa, she attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she received an MFA. Li is a recipient of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for new writers. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker , The Paris Review , Glimmer Train , and Prospect . She lives in Oakland, California with her husband and their two sons. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- In Search of Lost Time (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A405YL
- Title
- A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
- Author
- Li Yiyun
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0007196628
- ISBN 13
- 9780007196623
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2006
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