Kinder Than Solitude
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00EX4FFNQ
Publish date: February 25th 2014
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
I would have never read this book had it not been a book for club book and I know I wouldn’t have finished this novel had it not been for book club. This book was different. I couldn’t get a firm grip on what was happening in the novel as I read it and it frustrated me. I couldn’t follow the storyli...
Death would be kinder than solitude. I loved Yiyun Li's previous book, The Vagrants (5 stars), but I just didn't click with The Kindness of Solitude in the same way. I found this latest book to be a much denser read, with too much philosophising for my taste. It was also billed as a mystery aroun...
This book was on one of those “Best Books to Read This Year” lists, so of course I added it to my TBR pile. In the summary and reviews, it is described as “magnificent”, “brilliantly written”, and “a breathtaking page-turner”. So when I saw it was available on NetGalley, I was thrilled. Then, I star...
Title: Kinder than Solitude Who wrote it? Yiyun Li, MacArthur Fellow and PEN/Hemingway Award-winner Plot in a Box: Alternating between past and present, China and America, an omniscient narrator traces the lives of three childhood friends. Invent a new title for this book: The Tang Dyn...
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