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This seller has earned a 3.89 of 5 Stars rating from internet customers.

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Reviewers praised The Book of Goose for elegant, incisive prose and a psychologically exacting portrait of an intense, often coercive friendship. Many noted its nontraditional, plot-light design—more voice and meditation than event—which some found slow or overlong. Initial disappointment for a few gave way to admiration as the book’s ideas and atmosphere lingered, with several calling it powerful and memorable literary fiction.

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Winner of the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Long-listed for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
A Slate Top Ten Book of the Year
A TIME Best Fiction Book of 2022

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, Financial Times, San Francisco Chronicle, LitHub, Buzzfeed, and more.

A magnificent, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school to the quiet Pennsylvania home where a woman can live without her past, The Book of Goose is a story of disturbing intimacy and obsession, of exploitation and strength of will, by the celebrated author Yiyun Li.

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

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

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Title The Book of Goose
Author Yiyun Li
Binding Hardback
Pages 368
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date 2022-09-20
Features Dust Cover
ISBN 9780374606343 / 037460634X
Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
Dimensions 9 x 5.8 x 1.3 in (22.86 x 14.73 x 3.30 cm)
Themes
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Friendship
Category Fiction - General
Library of Congress subjects France, Gifted children
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2022022703
Dewey Decimal Code 813.6

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Booklist, 08/01/2022, Page 18
Kirkus Reviews, 07/01/2022, Page 0
Library Journal, 09/01/2022, Page 136
Library Journal Prepub Alert, 04/01/2022, Page 5
Publishers Weekly, 07/18/2022, Page 0

About the author

Yiyun Li is the author of six works of fiction--Must I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl--and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards, including the PEN/Malamud Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University.

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