{"product_id":"9780008531904","title":"Wednesday's Child","description":"Author: Yiyun Li\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780008531904\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 14 Mar 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 256 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Any book by Yiyun Li is a cause for celebration' SIGRID NUNEZ\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'One of our finest living authors' \u003cem\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Bruising, beautiful' \u003cem\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade, spanning loss, alienation, ageing and the strangeness of contemporary life – from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Goose\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she’s lost. A professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year, a restless woman receives an email from a strange man twice her age and several states away. In Yiyun Li’s stories, people strive for an ordinary existence until doing so becomes unsustainable, until the surface cracks and grand mysterious forces – death, violence, estrangement – come to light. And even everyday life is laden with meaning, studded with indelible details: a filched jar of honey, a mound of wounded ants, a photograph kept hidden for many years, until it must be seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLi is a breathtakingly original writer, an alchemist of opposites: tender and unsentimental, metaphysical and blunt, funny and horrifying, omniscient and yet acutely aware of just how much we cannot know. Beloved for her novels and memoirs, she returns here to her earliest form, gathering short stories and a remarkable novella never before published in the UK. Taken together, the stories in \u003cem\u003eWednesday's Child\u003c\/em\u003e articulate the true cost of living with all Li’s trademark unnerving beauty and searing wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Quiet, subtle and often agonisingly wrenching … Li explores the brittle fractures within the human heart … A shimmering meditation’ \u003cem\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Strands of melancholy are braided through Li’s tender, thoughtful stories’ \u003cem\u003eDAILY MAIL\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Against the backdrop of threat, Li’s characters meditate coolly on meaning and mortality’ \u003cem\u003eOBSERVER\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46548097630366,"sku":"HPC-9780008531904","price":22.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780008531904.jpg?v=1771807469","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780008531904","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}