*Goosebumps* by [USA] R.L. Stine Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House

❈ If geese have dreams, they know they must never let the world see them.
❈ An ambiguous allegory that oscillates between narrator and ghostwriter, girl and girl, obscurity and exposure.
Winner of the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
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❈ Synopsis
Fabienne is dead. The news of her death in a family letter brings Agnès's heart from Pennsylvania, USA, back to Saint-Rémy, the small French town where Agnès and Fabienne grew up together. In that war-torn corner, at thirteen, they built a two-person world with imagination and words, a world where happiness could grow and ghosts could be talked to.
It was the summer of 1953, Agnès's happiest time, when Fabienne disrupted everything with a decision: to co-write a book, to let the world know their feelings, but to credit only Agnès. With the help of the postmaster, Monsieur Devaux, the book succeeded, and Agnès was pushed into the outside world, from the countryside to Paris, from elite schools in London to backyards in Pennsylvania.
Through adventures interwoven with fame, fortune, and unspoken meanings, the girls went their separate ways, until the death of one brought freedom to the other: Agnès decided to write another book, telling the true story of her and Fabienne.
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❈ Media Reviews
All fiction is akin to deception, for it weaves fictitious illusions, using fictional characters and plots to evoke real emotions. "The Book of Goose" is Yiyun Li's most entertaining work, an existential allegory that reveals the intricate motivations behind our writing: to understand the truth of our own existence, to avenge that truth, to let others feel as we do, and to commemorate those who live eternally in the villages within us. — "The New York Times Book Review"
This is not a victim's story, far from it. It's much more interesting and eerie than that. Those close to Agnès are not as dangerous as they claim; the manipulators of the privileged class exaggerate their power. All the crises in the novel stem from Fabienne and Agnès's chosen estrangement, driven by their imagination and adventurous spirit, or from the unchangeable predicaments of their birth and history. — "The Guardian"

About the Author
Author
Yiyun Li, an American-Chinese writer, is currently a Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.
Born in Beijing in 1972, she studied biology at Peking University before moving to the United States. In 2005, she earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa. Her debut short story collection, "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers," won the 2005 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. In 2012, she received the MacArthur "Genius Grant." She has published five novels, three short story collections, and one memoir. "Must I Go," published in 2020, was her first novel to be translated and published in Chinese. Her fifth novel, "The Book of Goose," won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2023.

Translator
Zhang Yun, a graduate of Peking University's German Department, now resides in the United States. She is a freelance translator and writer. Her translations include "Faraway," "The Cat Table," "The Dancer," "The Housekeeper," "Flying Across the Atlantic," "The Confessions of Maria," "The American," "Saints and Sinners," "Olive Kitteridge," and "The Way of Travel."