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Yiyun li is a skillful and brilliant master of storytelling. In these spellbinding stories, yiyun li, hemingway foundationpen award winner and acclaimed author of a. Yiyun li is the author of four works of fictionkinder than solitude, a thousand years of good prayers, the vagrants, and gold boy, emerald girl and the memoir dear friend, from my life i. The boy was now in his last year of high school, and siyu, having told.
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