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The Book of Goose

Yiyun Li

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HARPER360
05 October 2022
'A dazzling, subtle, skilful knockout – I loved it' Charlotte Mendelson

‘One of our finest living authors … propulsively entertaining’ New York Times

‘Wonderfully strange and alive’ Jon McGregor

A propulsive, seductive new novel about friendship, exploitation and intimacy from the prize-winning author of Where Reasons End

Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised – the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now, Agnès is free to tell her story.

As children in a backwater town, they’d built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves – until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnès on an epic trajectory through fame, fortune, and terrible loss.

A dark, ravishing tale winding from the rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school, to the quiet Pennsylvania home where Agnès can live without her past. The Book of Goose is a story of intimacy and obsession, friendship and rivalry perfect for fans of Elena Ferrante, Ottessa Moshfegh and Kamila Shamsie.

‘Beguiling … A shimmering, unsettling tale of exploitation and manipulation’ Daily Mail

‘Brilliant … A novel of deceptions and cruelty’ Spectator

‘For all its surface lushness, this is a novel of meticulous philosophical inquiry…resonant with echoes of… My Brilliant Friend, as well Elizabeth Strout… electrifying’ Observer

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Imprint:   HARPER360
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 135mm,  Spine: 28mm
Weight:   370g
ISBN:   9780008531829
ISBN 10:   000853182X
Pages:   368
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing, China, and came to the United States in 1996. She is the recipient of several prizes for her writing and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Li's stories have been published in the New Yorker, the Paris Review and elsewhere. She lives in Iowa City, USA, with her husband and their two sons.

Reviews for 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


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