Burnt Sugar : Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 Yiyun Li background on the author

background on the author

She provides astute descriptions of the vernacular and oral culture of each country of Europe

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Burnt Sugar : Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 Yiyun Li background on the authorLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021 The hottest debut of 2020, an unmissable, Booker shortlisted novel which everyone's talking about: a searing, compulsively readable tale of mothers and daughters, love and betrayal PICKED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY the Guardian, Economist, Spectator and more 'Arresting and fiercely intelligent, disarmingly witty and frank' Sunday Times 'Extraordinary. Exquisitely written, painfully exhilarating, impossible to