Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life
- Published: 23 March 2017
- ISBN: 9780241978672
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 176
A remarkable account of literary life [from] an important and gifted writer... Her new book is a meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life
Marilynne Robinson
Extraordinary. A storyteller of the first order
Junot Diaz
A work of arresting revelations...A writer of meticulous reasoning, probing sensitivity, candor, and poise, Li parses mental states with psychological and philosophical precision in a beautifully measured and structured style born of both her scientific and literary backgrounds.
Booklist
Beautiful and profound... This book is a terribly beautiful gift to the reader
Neel Mukherjee, New Statesman
Exceptional... one of our major novelists
Salman Rushdie
Li celebrates the authors who make reading a joyous pursuit, and the details that've made her own life worth living.
Huffington Post
Publisher's description. A luminous memoir from the award-winning author of The Vagrants and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this is the record of a life lived with books and a richly affirming examination of what makes any life worth living.
Penguin
Yiyun has the talent, the vision and the respect for life's insoluble mysteries... [she] is the real deal
Michel Faber