The Book of Goose

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'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, 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 backwater town, theyd 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.

A dark, ravishing tale winding from the rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school, to the quiet Pennsylvania home where Agns 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 inquiryresonant with echoes of My Brilliant Friend, as well Elizabeth Strout electrifying Observer

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Fans of Elena Ferrantes Neapolitan trilogy wont be disappointed, but the comparison undermines the skill with which Li tells her story, peeling back the layers to reveal the dark truths at the heart of Agnes and Fabiennes friendship Marie Claire

[Li] has become one of our finest living authors: Her elegant metaphysics never elide the blood and maggots The most propulsively entertaining of Lis novels an existential fable that illuminates the tangle of motives behind our writing of stories New York Times

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

These two perverse, dangerous, glorious girls are their own creation and their own destiny, captured in the high noon of their lives Observer New Review

Resonant with echoes of My Brilliant Friend, as well as authors including Elizabeth Strout and William Trevor For all its surface lushness, this is a novel of meticulous philosophical inquiry Observer

Brilliant A novel of deceptions and cruelty Spectator

'Dazzling, subtle, skilful I loved it' Charlotte Mendelson, author of The Exhibitionist

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. Beautiful, sad, funny and claustrophobic Jon McGregor, author of Lean Fall Stand

A haunting novel about loss, friendship and storytelling Few writers match Yiyun Lis ability to explore human desire and ambition Tash Aw, author of Strangers on a Pier

Meet Agns and FabienneCome 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

Author Bio

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. Lis 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.