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Kinder Than Solitude

Yiyun Li

‘Being let down was Celia’s fate; life never failed to bestow upon her pain and disappointment she had to suffer on everyone’s behalf, so that the world could go on being a good place, free from real calamities.’

Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li is the author of five novels, two story collections, and one memoir. She has received the PEN/Hemingway Award, the PEN/Malamud Award, a PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize, among other prizes.

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