{"product_id":"wednesdays-child-9780008531867","title":"Wednesdays Child","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2024''Any book by Yiyun Li is a cause for celebration'' SIGRID NUNEZ''One of our finest living authors'' NEW YORK TIMES''Bruising, beautiful'' GUARDIANA dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade, spanning loss, alienation, ageing and the strangeness of contemporary life  from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The Book of GooseA grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. A professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year, a restless woman receives an email from a strange man twice her age and several states away. In Yiyun Li's stories, people strive for an ordinary existence until doing so becomes unsustainable, until the surface cracks and grand mysterious forces  death, violence, estrangement  come to light. And even everyday life is laden with meaning, studded with indelible details: a filched jar of honey, a mound of wounded ants, a photograph kept hidden for many years, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e             \u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eWednesday’s Child\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e           \u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Quiet, subtle and often agonisingly wrenching … Li explores the brittle fractures within the human heart … \u003cstrong\u003eA shimmering meditation\u003c\/strong\u003e’ \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Strands of melancholy are braided through Li’s \u003cstrong\u003etender, thoughtful\u003c\/strong\u003e stories’ \u003cem\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘\u003cstrong\u003eGrief, survival, aftermath\u003c\/strong\u003e: these are the themes of Yiyun Li’s new book … \u003cstrong\u003eMany of the pieces centre on the painful unspooling of memories as life continues\u003c\/strong\u003e’ \u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Each story exposes a tender nub of humanity, captured with \u003cstrong\u003equietly devastating\u003c\/strong\u003e force in Li's artful prose. \u003cstrong\u003eThis is a collection to savour, contemplate and return to\u003c\/strong\u003e’ \u003cem\u003eCulture Whisper\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e             \u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Yiyun Li\u003c\/strong\u003e           \u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Any new book by Yiyun Li is \u003cstrong\u003ecause for celebration\u003c\/strong\u003e, but now more than ever do we need \u003cstrong\u003ethe clarity and humaneness of her vision\u003c\/strong\u003e’ Sigrid Nunez, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Friend\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Li is extraordinary – a storyteller of the first order\u003c\/strong\u003e. She inhabits the lives of her characters with such force and compassion that one cannot help but marvel’ Junot Díaz, author of \u003cem\u003eThis is How You Lose Her\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Few writers match Yiyun Li’s ability to explore human desire and ambition … \u003cstrong\u003eOne of the great writers of our time\u003c\/strong\u003e’ Tash Aw, author of \u003cem\u003eWe, the Survivors\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e'Yiyun Li writes deeply, drolly, and with elegance about history, even as it’s happening.\u003cstrong\u003e She is one of my favourite writers\u003c\/strong\u003e' Meg Wolitzer, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Female Persuasion\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Li writes with \u003cstrong\u003ea shimmering and deeply felt precision\u003c\/strong\u003e’ \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Li’s books render the world so sharply that they might draw blood\u003c\/strong\u003e’ \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Li narrates from the fringes of her own experience … \u003cstrong\u003eShe insists on her own uncategorizable perspective, breaking rules in a sly, stubborn way\u003c\/strong\u003e’ Alexandra Kleeman,\u003cem\u003e New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864011125079,"sku":"9780008531867","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780008531867.jpg?v=1722269976","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/wednesdays-child-9780008531867","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}