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Prøve GULL - Gratis
French stew
New Zealand Listener
|November 05, 2022
A ruminative tale of female friendship, mythmaking and folk wisdom.
THE BOOK OF GOOSE, by Yiyun Li (Fourth Estate, $32.99) Early in Yiyun Li's new novel, two 13-year-old friends, Agnes and Fabienne, discuss happiness. "Can you grow happiness?" I asked. "You can grow anything. Just like potatoes," Fabienne said. Agnes finds this answer unsatisfactory, because "happiness should not be dirt-coloured and hidden underground. Even apples on a branch would be better suited to be called happiness than apples in the earth. Though if happiness were like apples, I thought, it would be quite ordinary and uninteresting"
The exchange continues: "You don't believe me?" Fabienne said. "I have an idea.
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