The Book of Goose

'Meet Agnes and Fabienne... Come for the writerly scheming, stay for the exquisitely calibrated examination of how our most tender and important bonds involve the manipulation of power and devotion' LA Times 'Bringing to mind Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend, by way of Anita Brookner's quietly dramatic prose, makes for a powerful Cinderella fable with memorable characters. It's an accomplished new turn for Li' Publishers Weekly 'A dazzling, subtle, skilful knockout - I loved it' Charlotte Mendelson, author of The Exhibitionist 'Yiyun Li perceives human behaviour with a rinsing clarity. An ambitious and profound book' Clare Pollard, author of Fierce Bad Rabbits 'In a story about love and creation, Yiyun Li slips in a satire of the business of marketing authors... deft and delicious' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Starling Days 'Yiyun Li has, again, done something new and gone somewhere wonderfully strange and alive. The Book of Goose is beautiful, sad, funny and claustrophobic' Jon McGregor, author of Lean Fall Stand 'A haunting novel about loss, friendship and storytelling, Book of Goose proves, again, that few writers match Yiyun Li's ability to explore human desire and ambition. This new work broadens the canvas of one of the great writers of our time' Tash Aw, author of Strangers on a Pier 'Exquisite. . . Stunners: Li's memorable duo, their lives, their losses' Kirkus Reviews