Book of geese

Fabienne is dead. Agnes receives news of her childhood friend while in America, far from the French village where the two girls grew up. As children in a war-torn remote town, they built a personal world invisible to others. And they turned their own fictions on their allies. Agnes’ sudden transformation from shepherdess to popular Parisian writer, and later to future star of English high society, seems like a great feat of life. But is it really so? Now Agnes is free to tell this story on her own behalf.

A story-memory from the post-war rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school to a quiet house in Pennsylvania, where Agnes can finally live without her past.

"The Book of Goose" is a gripping novel about fate, art, manipulation, and intimacy from Jun Li, author of six novels and a professor at Princeton University.