A Sheltered Woman
A Sheltered Woman
Yiyun Li
Winner of the Sunday Times EFG Short Story PrizeAuntie 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.
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Yiyun Li
Winner of the Sunday Times EFG Short Story PrizeAuntie 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.
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Fourth Estate
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
1 London Bridge Street
London SE1 9GF
4thestate.co.uk (http://4thestate.co.uk)
This eBook first published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate 2015
First published in the United States in 2014 by The New Yorker
Copyright © Yiyun Li 2014
Yiyun Li asserts the moral right to
be identified as the author of this work
A catalogue record of this book is
available from the British Library
Cover illustration © Gracia Lam
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.
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About the Author (#ulink_d52aa681-c182-5a34-aed8-fe5119e90004)
Also by Yiyun Li (#ulink_7af7d5fe-d488-54a4-891e-eba2a06811c6)
About the Publisher (#ue647436c-e8f7-5bbf-a977-ae1a01fa9cb1)
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Yiyun Li
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Жанр: Современная зарубежная литература
Язык: на английском языке
Издательство: HarperCollins
Дата публикации: 16.04.2024
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О книге: Winner of the Sunday Times EFG Short Story PrizeAuntie 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.