Best short story books from China

Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into short story here are some short story books from China for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers : Stories by Yiyun Li EN

Rating: 4 11 Votes

Country: Asia /

China

Description:

Brilliant and original, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers introduces a remarkable new writer whose breathtaking stories are set in China and among Chinese Americans in the United States. In this rich, astonishing collection, Yiyun Li illuminates how mythology, politics, history, and culture intersect with personality to create fate. From the bustling heart of Beijing, to a fast-food restaurant in Chicago, to the barren expanse of Inner Mongolia, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers reveals worlds both foreign and familiar, with heartbreaking honesty and in beautiful prose. “Immortality,” winner of ... continue

Genre fiction Historical fiction Short story

Tags: Female author

Recommended: 09 Apr 2022

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To Hold Up the Sky by Cixin Liu EN

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Country: Asia /

China

Description:

From New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu comes a short story collection of captivating visions of the future and incredible re-imaginings of the past. In To Hold Up the Sky, Cixin Liu takes us across time and space, from a rural mountain community where elementary students must use physicas to prevent an alien invasion; to coal mines in northern China where new technology will either save lives of unleash a fire that will burn for centuries; to a time very much like our own, when superstring computers predict our every move; to 10,000 years in the future, when humanity is finally able ... continue

Genre fiction Science fiction Short story

Tags: Set in CHINA Male author

Recommended: 31 Dec 2022

Short story books from China

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers : Stories by Yiyun Li EN

To Hold Up the Sky by Cixin Liu EN

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