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The Book of Goose
- Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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The Book of Goose
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Publisher's 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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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance2 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- Jessica
- 15-05-2023
So much promise - so little pay off
Fantastic source material, terribly written in terms of plotting and characterisation. The voice actor’s failed french accent drove me to distraction for the first few hours of the book and I had a hard time getting in to it. I left and returned to it multiple times over six months, finally listening to it whilst too unwell to search for a new novel. The novel gained some momentum in the final hours, although the ending failed to offer much pay off in terms of greater insight gained from the perspectives of distance and time. Listen to the preview before making the decision to buy. Perhaps Google a couple of online reviews also.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- Victoria White
- 08-03-2023
A bit tiring to get through
I felt the repetition of a small number of characters extended the story without adding to it.
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