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Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnes, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised--the place that Fabienne helped Agnes escape ten years ago. Now, Agnes is free to tell her story. As children in a war-ravaged, backwater town, they'd bui...

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Main Author: Li, Yiyun, 1972- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
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Teenage girls > France > Fiction.
Female friendship > Fiction.
Women authors > Fiction.
France > History > 1945-1958 > Fiction.
Coming-of-age fiction.
Historical fiction.
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Summary:Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnes, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised--the place that Fabienne helped Agnes escape ten years ago. Now, Agnes is free to tell her story. As children in a war-ravaged, backwater town, they'd built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves--until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnes on an epic trajectory through fame, fortune, and terrible loss.
Physical Description:348 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9780374606343
037460634X
Author Notes:Yiyun Li is the author of six works of fiction-- Must I Go , Where Reasons End , Kinder Than Solitude , A Thousand Years of Good Prayers , The Vagrants , and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl --and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life . She is the recipient of many awards, including the PEN/Malamud Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker , A Public Space , The Best American Short Stories , and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories , among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University.

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