A magnificent, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school, to the quiet Pennsylvania home where a woman 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.
Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, re...
A magnificent, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school, to the quiet Pennsylvania home where a woman 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.
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 war-ravaged, 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.
Yiyun Li is the author of six works of fiction—Must I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl—and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards, including a PEN/Hemingway Award, a PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham...
Yiyun Li is the author of six works of fiction—Must I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl—and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards, including a PEN/Hemingway Award, a PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize, and was featured in The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 fiction issue. Her work has also appeared in A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
I decided to write a story about a gardener. She was an old woman, blind, wrinkled, who looked like a witch and was dreaded by her neighbors. But she was not a witch, she reasoned with herself. She did, though, have hands that could hear things just as well as her ears. She knew that on a warm day, the dirt buzzed, and on a cold day, the dirt shivered, heaving tiny sighing sounds. A healthy root could sing a song, a dead root cracked at the first note and could never find the right pitch again. Buds and petals and new leaves all had their own ways of talking, screaming, laughing, or groaning.
Once a day the villagers surrounded her shack and called out her name, asking her to leave because they did not want a witch among them. But what was so extraordinary about a blind person who could ... (查看原文)
看到英格兰學校部分其实有点疲惫了， 跟lidan說覺得有點失望，然後緊接著最後一個部分突然当头一棒，兩個女孩站在墓地裡對話彷彿是終於等到得一劑蛇毒發作，之前缓慢的苟延残喘。看yiyun li的非虛構，會感受到一種在失去之後還要繼續失去的痛苦，痛苦好似綿延不絕永無盡期，沒想到虛構故事中也是如此： too young to die， too sane to submit ourselves to ma...看到英格兰學校部分其实有点疲惫了， 跟lidan說覺得有點失望，然後緊接著最後一個部分突然当头一棒，兩個女孩站在墓地裡對話彷彿是終於等到得一劑蛇毒發作，之前缓慢的苟延残喘。看yiyun li的非虛構，會感受到一種在失去之後還要繼續失去的痛苦，痛苦好似綿延不絕永無盡期，沒想到虛構故事中也是如此： too young to die， too sane to submit ourselves to madness . ｜ 去接受Real life， 就好像弯着腰从一条不怎么干净的河里捞一张已经泡发泡散的纸。(展开)
随便记一些想到的和从采访中听到的: - 李翊云很喜欢这个标题，一个采访提到说标题是比小说的内容先有的。她很喜欢鹅: "despite not having good reputation (they may attack people), goose is mysterious / inexplicable"。像书里写的: But my chickens, with their small br...
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“You cannot cut an apple with an apple. You cannot cut an orange with an orange. All those years we had made ourselves believe that we were two apples hanging next to each other on the same branch, or that we were to oranges nestled in a crate, or, even, t...
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2 有用 maomaoding 2023-12-12 20:23:59 上海
下半年屈指可数的英文阅读
29 有用 冷建国 2023-01-20 15:42:54 黑龙江
人如何知道自己真的活着？在墓地里，在刀刃里，在谎言里，在与世界格格不入的时刻，在爱滋生出恐惧的时刻。人不总是知道也不必要知道being real的意义，即便是两个十几岁的女孩，想到这里也已经匆匆老去。
13 有用 🧡勞小姐🧡 2024-03-02 11:49:49 广东
-_-看了李翊云两个长篇，都是开头惊艳、中间疲软、结尾亮眼。如果不是粉丝，估计很难熬过中间的寡淡无味。另一个问题是她笔下的人物和生活都没啥实感（情感是真的，生活是假的）。就是尽管你会被里面的某些心理描写所打动，但你还是会忘掉这些人物的经历，或者不相信他们的经历是真的。
28 有用 勒托顿的湖 2022-12-06 08:36:54 英国
看到英格兰學校部分其实有点疲惫了， 跟lidan說覺得有點失望，然後緊接著最後一個部分突然当头一棒，兩個女孩站在墓地裡對話彷彿是終於等到得一劑蛇毒發作，之前缓慢的苟延残喘。看yiyun li的非虛構，會感受到一種在失去之後還要繼續失去的痛苦，痛苦好似綿延不絕永無盡期，沒想到虛構故事中也是如此： too young to die， too sane to submit ourselves to ma... 看到英格兰學校部分其实有点疲惫了， 跟lidan說覺得有點失望，然後緊接著最後一個部分突然当头一棒，兩個女孩站在墓地裡對話彷彿是終於等到得一劑蛇毒發作，之前缓慢的苟延残喘。看yiyun li的非虛構，會感受到一種在失去之後還要繼續失去的痛苦，痛苦好似綿延不絕永無盡期，沒想到虛構故事中也是如此： too young to die， too sane to submit ourselves to madness . ｜ 去接受Real life， 就好像弯着腰从一条不怎么干净的河里捞一张已经泡发泡散的纸。 (展开)
6 有用 脆脆冰 2022-11-28 03:55:42 美国
Wanting and unable to kill each other; wanting and unable to save each other.