Book : The Book Of Goose A Novel - Li, Yiyun

-Titulo Original : The Book Of Goose A Novel

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Farrar, Straus And Giroux

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About the Author Yiyun Li is the author of several 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. Longlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction 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, Agnes, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised the place that Fabienne helped Agnes escape ten years ago. Now, Agnes 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 Agnes on an epic trajectory through fame, fortune, and terrible loss. Review “Take the knife that Li offers, cut through all these outer trappings, and you find something much more mysterious. Though it is ostensibly a realist historical novel about the lives of women and girls in mid-century France, as its fablelike title indicates, The Book of Goose secretly dwells in the realm of fairy tale . . . [Li explores] the strange power of the myths we form about the people who shape us.” Sarah Chihaya, The Atlantic “There is a fairy-tale atmosphere, mystery as deep and dark as the soil, but also specific historical context . . . Everything is conveyed through layers of translation, subjectivity and invention. The impact is profound.” Max Liu, The i Paper “This is a novel of meticulous philosophical inquiry, roaming from the nature of reality and the truth quotient of fact, memory and fiction to the instantaneousness of childhood friendship - so much more ‘fatal’, as Agnes puts it, than the endlessly crooned about love at first sight. There’s room, too, for a spiky, often droll critique of what it takes out of an author to be published and compelled to engage with the outside world.” Hephzibah Anderson, The Guardian “This is a novel of deceptions and cruelty . . . But within this somber mood is something brilliant. With characteristic poise, Li depicts the intricacies of ordinary lives: childhood friendship, growing up, and existences as slow as the passively ‘floating’ geese Agnes watches.” Francesca Peacock, The Spectator “Li’s books render the world so sharply that they might draw blood, but they are also shot through, I think, with an extraordinary hopefulness . . . they possess a fullness, a deep love of both language and character.” Lynn Steger Strong, The Los Angeles Times “A compulsively readable meditation on how our closest friendships harbor both love and hate and how we can fail each other over and over again . . . Li’s crystalline, insightful prose adds incredible depth to the drama, yet the dynamic between the girls remains the complex heart of The Book of Goose.” Sarah Rose Etter, BOMB “A subtly suspenseful and inventive novel of friendship, opportunism, fame, fantasy, success and survival.” BookBrowse (five-star review) “Not since John Knowles A Separate Peace has a novel wrung such drama from two teens standing face to face on a tree branch.” Kevin Canfield, Star Tribune “Haunting . . . The Book of Goose is a fascinating period piece