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Ladataan... A Sheltered WomanTekijä: Yiyun Li
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Winner of the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize Auntie Mei is a live-in nanny for newborns and their mothers. She has worked for a hundred and twenty-six families and looked after a hundred and thirty-one babies, one set of clients easily replaced by the next. But the hundred and thirty-second baby and his mother Chanel prompts a crisis in Auntie Mei's life - a tremor that threatens to destroy her resolute detachment. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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For such a short story, this is a fantastic piece.
Li manages to pack so much into such a tiny space and some of the lines in this narrative were beautiful. I don't want to talk about the plot, because if I say anything more than the blurb, it will spoil it. But this story really looks at themes like motherhood, what it means to be a woman, to have your own identity and the choices we make.
Auntie Mei is a really interesting protagonist because she works in a way that allows the reader to write their own self onto her, as if she were a blank slate.
I loved this story and I'm looking forward to reading more of Yuyin Li's work. ( )