Name: Kinder Than Solitude
ISBN: 9780007357109

Yiyun Li

The new novel from Yiyun Li, author of The Vagrants and the Guardian First Book Award-winning A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.

Kinder Than Solitude

A tale set in America and China follows the experiences of three people who in their youths were involved in a mysterious accident that resulted in a friend's fatal poisoning and who years later are haunted by the possibility that one of them actually committed a murder. By the award-winning author of The Vagrants.

A Novel

li’s portrayal of the social milieu in 1980s-1990s china was amazingly done. seeing beijing's rapid social and economic development through the eyes of the three children made me nostalgic for a time and place i had direct no claim to.