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Writer Yiyun Li Lost Both of Her Sons. When Words Fell Short, She Turned to Music
The novel contrasts a child prodigy and an orphan as 18th-century Europe turns talent into labor and limits women’s ambitions.
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Writer Yiyun Li lost both of her sons. When words fell short, she turned to music
Li won a Pulitzer for her memoir about the suicides of her two sons. In her new novel, Music Against the Night, she writes about two young prodigies in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
·San Diego, United States
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Review: Blame Mozart: The Romantic Era is no place for child prodigies in Yiyun Li’s new novel
The Chinese-born writer's new book follows the convergent fates of two child prodigies in 18th century Europe. Her 2025 memoir, "Things in Nature Merely Grow," won a Pulitzer Prize.
·El Segundo, United States
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