Author

Yiyun Li

Chinese American writer who trained as an immunologist before turning to fiction. A MacArthur Fellow and professor at Princeton, she has won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Windham-Campbell Prize.

Fiction

Books by this author

4.3

The Borrowed Year

Yiyun Li

A spare, piercing novel about a translator who agrees to spend twelve months living someone else's life — and finds she prefers it.

Fiction