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The Book of Goose

by Yiyun Li

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction · 2023 · Winner
Farrar, Straus and Girouxliterary-fictionISBN 9780374600112

Award History

AwardYearStatus
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction2023Winner

About This Book

A novel set in postwar rural France about two girls whose collaboration produces a literary sensation, exploring creativity and the erasure of women's intellectual contributions.

About the Author

Yiyun Li is a Chinese-American novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the most important literary voices of her generation. Born in Beijing, she studied immunology at Peking University before emigrating to the United States, where she received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and an MFA in nonfiction from Iowa. Her debut short story collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2005), won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, among others. Read more →

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