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.
作者简介
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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.
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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)
需要耐心进入，开篇时想到我的天才女友，后来觉得完全不是，两个女孩是一体两面。
“Our make-beliefs were our allies. How else could we thrive？”处于世界夹缝中的两个女孩试图通过写作来对抗世界，嘲笑世界，而虚构是否可以记录是否可以确认她们的存在？从虚构中醒来，真实世界避无可避。墓地之上天才的尖叫太痛苦太绝望，无法被驯服，也无法疯狂，两个女孩最好...需要耐心进入，开篇时想到我的天才女友，后来觉得完全不是，两个女孩是一体两面。
“Our make-beliefs were our allies. How else could we thrive？”处于世界夹缝中的两个女孩试图通过写作来对抗世界，嘲笑世界，而虚构是否可以记录是否可以确认她们的存在？从虚构中醒来，真实世界避无可避。墓地之上天才的尖叫太痛苦太绝望，无法被驯服，也无法疯狂，两个女孩最好的时光已经过去。
看完后回想起开篇才意识到Yiyun是有多残忍：Fabienne死于childbirth，与她的姐姐一样。美到达顶点后就要走向衰败，天才背弃最纯粹的自己，就得走向庸常。结局似乎是另一种反抗，被世界遗忘的Agnès 写下了她们的故事：但这是我们的故事，你们甚至不被允许窥上一眼。(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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7 有用 别的熊 2022-10-07 20:28:19 福建
怀疑这是她近年三部小说中最易读的一本。灵感来自Berthe Grimault, 一位14岁出版作品后疑似被证实为“假神童”的法国女孩，萨冈的“前浪”。故事设置估计要令不少读者想到《我的天才女友》，或许区别在于最后那句话，她们杀不了对方，也救不了彼此。在墓地捂住好友双耳放声——如同受伤小兽般——尖叫的Fabienne太过震撼人心，彼时金色童年已逝，往后是延绵不绝的痛苦；还有她体内那些巨大且无法名状、... 怀疑这是她近年三部小说中最易读的一本。灵感来自Berthe Grimault, 一位14岁出版作品后疑似被证实为“假神童”的法国女孩，萨冈的“前浪”。故事设置估计要令不少读者想到《我的天才女友》，或许区别在于最后那句话，她们杀不了对方，也救不了彼此。在墓地捂住好友双耳放声——如同受伤小兽般——尖叫的Fabienne太过震撼人心，彼时金色童年已逝，往后是延绵不绝的痛苦；还有她体内那些巨大且无法名状、无力调和之物。李翊云的用词和比喻一如既往精准，甚至过于精准，太聪明，有时我都想留一些空间会不会更好。最后，是世人眼中的骗子Agnès执笔写下两人真实的故事，她们的童年，友谊与爱；她完成了「创作」这一游戏诞生时目的：让别人知道「我们」是怎么活的——在一本恰恰不为世人而作的书里。 (展开)
1 有用 pityOxygen 2022-10-08 19:36:16 中国澳门
李小姐果真写不贩售中国景观的小说就只能奔向贫瘠，上一本至少是茨威格，这一本则是欧美流行大杂烩
1 有用 Joie 2023-02-16 11:24:50 上海
需要耐心进入，开篇时想到我的天才女友，后来觉得完全不是，两个女孩是一体两面。 “Our make-beliefs were our allies. How else could we thrive？”处于世界夹缝中的两个女孩试图通过写作来对抗世界，嘲笑世界，而虚构是否可以记录是否可以确认她们的存在？从虚构中醒来，真实世界避无可避。墓地之上天才的尖叫太痛苦太绝望，无法被驯服，也无法疯狂，两个女孩最好... 需要耐心进入，开篇时想到我的天才女友，后来觉得完全不是，两个女孩是一体两面。 “Our make-beliefs were our allies. How else could we thrive？”处于世界夹缝中的两个女孩试图通过写作来对抗世界，嘲笑世界，而虚构是否可以记录是否可以确认她们的存在？从虚构中醒来，真实世界避无可避。墓地之上天才的尖叫太痛苦太绝望，无法被驯服，也无法疯狂，两个女孩最好的时光已经过去。 看完后回想起开篇才意识到Yiyun是有多残忍：Fabienne死于childbirth，与她的姐姐一样。美到达顶点后就要走向衰败，天才背弃最纯粹的自己，就得走向庸常。结局似乎是另一种反抗，被世界遗忘的Agnès 写下了她们的故事：但这是我们的故事，你们甚至不被允许窥上一眼。 (展开)
9 有用 untamedheart 2022-10-03 16:59:13
李真是很勇敢的写作者，这本书有各个方位的出其不意。从故事设置，叙述方式，故事主题，都避开了理所当然的更容易走的路。上市之前和初中的好友打了很长的电话，聊我们曾经历的侮辱和损害，然后看到这本书简介中的一段话，发给她看，她回我一个流泪的表情。所以第一时间买回来读，两个14岁女孩的友情，在充满贫穷和苦难的二战后的法国乡村，她们合谋编出故事，双簧演出，把一个人推向欧洲名利场，一个人留守原来的生活。而中间两... 李真是很勇敢的写作者，这本书有各个方位的出其不意。从故事设置，叙述方式，故事主题，都避开了理所当然的更容易走的路。上市之前和初中的好友打了很长的电话，聊我们曾经历的侮辱和损害，然后看到这本书简介中的一段话，发给她看，她回我一个流泪的表情。所以第一时间买回来读，两个14岁女孩的友情，在充满贫穷和苦难的二战后的法国乡村，她们合谋编出故事，双簧演出，把一个人推向欧洲名利场，一个人留守原来的生活。而中间两人的性格明暗冷热发生切换，谁是更狠心的那个，谁又最后写下了这本书。为什么要写作，文学的意义是什么，一切故事都是真的又是假的，如果不创作那她们的生命还剩下什么？李好会写，词句之间有广阔的想象空间。最后，封面真美。 (展开)
0 有用 country bread 2023-01-27 00:19:05 上海
我哭了…
0 有用 吾往 2023-03-23 12:03:39 美国
Feel excited! 刚刚看了开头，很流畅很喜欢
0 有用 walaki 2023-03-12 08:02:48 英国
完全缺乏灵性的类那不勒斯故事
0 有用 值得表扬 2023-03-09 23:08:30 美国
看这本的时候总会不时“良性”出戏 感叹作者的脑洞之大之深 一个旅美华人 是如何做到住进两个上个世纪五十年代法国农村少女的精神世界里的？
0 有用 J 2023-03-06 11:37:52 美国
Hard to describe- emotionally charged, touches something deep within the soul, and the sadness in reality; the most unique of all her books so far
0 有用 一度的微苏 2023-02-28 19:19:31 上海
两个女孩友情的故事很难写好，或者模式化，或者不如别的作品。这本比想象中好，旷远，忧郁，纯净。也看到了长篇小说有一个好处，是有广阔的空间，在写到穷极无聊处，还能稍稍一转，给转回来。