Yiyun Li’s new novel, The Book of Goose, is a beguiling tale of childhood imagination, hunger and memory - Categories Via RSS |
- Arts
- Publication Date |
- Feb 26, 2023
- Episode Duration |
- 01:01:09
Growing up in Communist China, Yiyun Li devoured any books she could find. But she never imagined that, on moving to the U.S., she'd become the author of prize-winning fiction in English, including such acclaimed works as A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants and Kinder than Solitude. Her latest novel, The Book of Goose, is a beguiling tale of two peasant girls in rural post-war France. Inspired by a real-life literary hoax, it's a moving meditation on friendship, imagination and truth in storytelling.