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 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.
A dark,ravishing tale winding from the rural provinces to Paris,from an English boarding school,to the quiet Pennsylvania home where Agnes 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.
Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 9780008531850Number of pages: 368Weight: 240 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 28 mm
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'Fans of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan trilogy won't 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 Fabienne's 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 Li's novels... an existential fable that illuminates the tangle of motives behind our writing of stories.'- The New York Times
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