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Over the next 12 weeks we’ll be getting the help of successful authors to explain everything would-be writers need to know. This is the first step to your debut novel


Poison and intrigue in past and present China

When Yiyun Li left China, at the age of 24, she couldn’t speak English. Now, nearly two decades later, she is recognised as one of its most perceptive contemporary writers


The power of guilt

The new novel by Yiyun Li, winner of the first Frank O’Connor award, is formidably intelligent and stylistically precise, but it lacks empathy





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