The Book of Goose
by Yiyun Li
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Pub Date 20 Sep 2022 | Archive Date 1 Nov 2023
4th Estate | Fourth Estate
Description
A propulsive, gripping new novel about fate, art, exploitation, and intimacy from the award-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 magnificent, beguiling 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 disturbing intimacy and obsession, of exploitation and strength of will, by the celebrated author Yiyun Li.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9780008531836 |
| PRICE | £4.49 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 352 |
Available on NetGalley
Featured Reviews
Nemra N, Reviewer
I've been a fan of Yiyun Li since her first appearances in Newyorker and Paris Review. She is such a talent and one is always in awe of her. This is a compelling story and one you can hardly put it down. the book is about Agnès and Fabienne, and their world of friendship. I got goosebumps readint this.
Ocean (, Reviewer
I would like to thank's Netgalley as well as 4th Estate for providing me with a free Arc for this book!
I couldn't stop thinking how this would make the perfect book for book clubs, hear me out: it's got a good length, it's a page turner and yet it's an intensely reflective story. It touches upon many subjects, the act of creation, the class system but perhaps more importantly the intensity of young female friendship. There is so much to discuss in this hyper realistic historical fiction.
I especially loved the character work as they are all so well fleshed out. Agnès and Fabienne especially of course, and the way their closeness pervades the story. They would climb inside each other's skin if they could and yet they couldn't be more different. They have the type of friendship that truly helps to shape you, the kind you always remember even years after it's ended. It was truly touching to witness.
If you like slices of life and coming of age stories I would really recommend "The book of Goose", it has superb writing and allow me to add, as a french woman myself, I was pleasantly surprised by the super accurate french vibe. If I didn't know better, I could easily be fooled into thinking this was written by a french person.
Ben D, Reviewer
Agnès and Fabienne are best friends, who together write a novel which becomes a best seller. It sounds a simple premise, but from this Yiyun Li crafts a truly spellbinding novel that explores themes of friendship, art, obsession, fame, fortune and its tragedies.
It is a slight novel in physical size - I gulped it down in one sitting - but its depths contain multitudes. It is a hard novel to discuss in terms of plot without giving away much of its richness, but what I will say is that Li has sculpted on these pages two extraordinary girls whose lives intertwine with explosive consequences.
The writing is exquisitely poised, with not a word out of place, and there is such richness here that a second reading will be as rewarding as the first. I cannot wait to swim back in.
Thank you to the publishers and Netgalley for the ARC.
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