Июнь Ли - Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

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Jean-Christophe, Romain Rolland, trans. Gilbert Cannan

Letters from a Stoic, Seneca, trans. Robin Campbell

War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Dream Tales and Prose Poems, Ivan Turgenev, trans. Constance Garnett

Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev , trans. Richard Freeborn

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Rudin, Ivan Turgenev, trans. Richard Freeborn

Sketches from a Hunter’s Album, Ivan Turgenev, trans. Richard Freeborn

Spring Torrents, Ivan Turgenev, trans. Leonard Schapiro

The Gentle Barbarian: The Work and Life of Turgenev, V. S. Pritchett

Turgenev: His Life and Times, Leonard Schapiro

Turgenev’s Letters: A Selection, ed. and trans. Edgar H. Lehrman

Letter from an Unknown Woman, Stefan Zweig , trans. Anthea Bell

Stefan and Lotte Zweig’s South American Letters: New York, Argentina and Brazil, 1940–42, ed. Darién J. Davis and Oliver Marshall

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AND I’M INDEBTED to William Trevor and all his books.

This book is part of a conversation with Brigid Hughes.

Acknowledgments

My deepest gratitude to Sarah Chalfant and Jin Auh for being everything for me and my books: friends, readers, and advocates. I would like to thank the Wylie Agency, especially Charles Buchan and Jacqueline Ko, for their tireless work on my behalf.

As always, I would like to thank Kate Medina for her faith in my books. I would like to thank Simon Prosser for his insight and precision.

Friends whose support has been essential—Mona Simpson, Elizabeth McCracken, Duchess Goldblatt, Patrick Cox, Lan Samantha Chang, Connie Brothers, Stuart Dybek, Chen Reis, Rabih Alameddine, and Tom Drury—thank you for being my friends.

Love to my parents and my sister.

To Patricia and Patrick Hughes: you have shown me things I did not understand and things I thought impossible.

Dearest Amy Leach: Where do I even start? Neither you nor I will, for all the tea in China, become a whateverist—what joy, what solace, what good fortune it is to be sensible and nonsensical together.

What anchors you? This question has been asked again and again, and the answer has never changed: my husband and my children. You help me take myself seriously.

BY YIYUN LI

Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

Kinder Than Solitude

Gold Boy, Emerald Girl

The Vagrants

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

YIYUN LI is the author of four works of fiction:

Kinder Than Solitude, The Vagrants, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers,

and

Gold Boy, Emerald Girl.

A native of Beijing and a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is the recipient of many awards, including a PEN/Hemingway Award, a Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship. Her work has appeared in

The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays,

and

The O. Henry Prize Stories,

among other publications. She was named by

The New Yorker

as one of the “20 Under 40” fiction writers to watch. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. She teaches creative writing at the University of California, Davis, and lives in Oakland, California, with her husband and their two sons.

yiyunli.com

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