THINGS IN NATURE MERELY GROW - YIYUN LI

Libro

Editorial	St. Martin's Press
Edad	Adultos
Idioma	Inglés Internacional
Autor	LI YIYUN
ISBN	9781250437976
Peso ( kg )	0,2
Formato	Soporte Físico
Año de edición	2026
Tapa	Rústica
Sinopsis	THINGS IN NATURE MERELY GROW WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR AUTOBIOGRAPHY FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for the PEN Jean Stein Book Award Long-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography One of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year Yiyun Li's remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James. "There is no good way to say this," Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book. "There is no good way to state these facts, which must be acknowledged . . . My husband and I had two children and lost them both: Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose suicide, and both died not far from home." There is no good way to say this-because words fall short. It takes only an instant for death to become fact, "a single point in a time line." Living now on this single point, Li turns to thinking and reasoning and searching for words that might hold a place for James. Li does what she can: doing "things that work," including not just writing but gardening, reading Camus and Wittgenstein, learning the piano, and living thinkingly alongside death. This is a book for James, but it is not a book about grieving or mourning. As Li writes, "The verb that does not die is 'to be.' Vincent was and is and will always be Vincent. James was and is and will always be James. We were and are and will always be their parents. There is no now and then, now and later; only now and now and now and now." Things in Nature Merely Grow is a testament to Li's indomitable spirit. Edad recomendada: Adultos. LI YIYUN Yiyun Li Pekín, 1972 es una escritora chino-estadounidense reconocida por sus relatos y novelas que exploran la sociedad china. Emigró a EE. UU. en 1996 para estudiar inmunología, pero se dedicó a la escritura creativa en la Universidad de Iowa. Ha recibido premios como el PEN Hemingway y el Guardian First Book Award. Enseña en Princeton y ha publicado en The New Yorker y The Paris Review.
Cantidad de páginas	192
Fecha Ingreso	15-10-2026