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Kinder Than Solitude
Li Yiyun
Random House
March 2014
On Sale: February 25, 2014
336 pages
ISBN: 1400068142
EAN: 9781400068142
Kindle: B00EX4FFNQ
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A profound mystery is at the heart of this magnificent new
novel by Yiyun Li, "one of America's best young novelists"
(Newsweek) and the celebrated author of The
Vagrants, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award.
Moving back and forth in time, between America today and
China in the 1990s, Kinder Than Solitude is the story
of three people whose lives are changed by a murder one of
them may have committed. As one of the three observes, "Even
the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a
heartless crime." When Moran, Ruyu, and Boyang were young, they were involved
in a mysterious "accident" in which a friend of theirs was
poisoned. Grown up, the three friends are separated by
distance and personal estrangement. Moran and Ruyu live in
the United States, Boyang in China; all three are haunted by
what really happened in their youth, and by doubt about
themselves. In California, Ruyu helps a local woman care for
her family and home, and avoids entanglements, as she has
done all her life. In Wisconsin, Moran visits her
ex-husband, whose kindness once overcame her flight into
solitude. In Beijing, Boyang struggles to deal with an
inability to love, and with the outcome of what happened
among the three friends twenty years ago. Brilliantly written, a breathtaking page-turner, Kinder
Than Solitude resonates with provocative observations
about human nature and life. In mesmerizing prose, and with
profound insight, Yiyun Li unfolds this remarkable story,
even as she explores the impact of personality and the past
on the shape of a person's present and future.
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