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The Book of Goose
- Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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Summary
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.
Critic reviews
"The surface of Yiyun Li's prose is deceptively still, but just beneath the surface is sadness, pain and tragedy… Yiyun Li has grown into one of our major novelists." (Salman Rushdie)
"Li writes with a shimmering and deeply felt precision." (Guardian)
"Li is extraordinary…a storyteller of the first order…Li inhabits the lives of her characters with such force and compassion that one one cannot help but marvel at her remarkable talents." (Junot Díaz)
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- Leen23
- 16-10-22
A bit all over the place.
Worth listening to. There are many wonderful details and observations, about friendship, about writing, about perversity, about class. The prose is really good.
I wish there were more of Agnes's fairy tales.
The ending is unsatisfying, like life, I guess.
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- MSC Emerson
- 19-01-23
Astonishing tale told with wit and compassion
To my surprise and delight the author succeeded in transcribing her experience of growing up in rural China into a French setting. Her young characters embodied the intensity of adolescents, a melange of innocence and fierce rebellion.
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- lukas
- 02-04-23
Depth of innermost thoughts and quiet nonconformit
Depth of innermost thoughts and quiet nonconformity.
Ffs audible don't require at least 15 words from me, I wanted to quickly rate it.
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- Pal
- 16-12-22
Long and boring
It was tedious to listen to.. Was expecting the story to pick up but it just never did!
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