Yiyun Li’s ‘The Book of Goose’ wins PEN/Faulkner award

Yiyun Li’s novel “The Book of Goose,” the story of two mischievous teenage girls in post-World War II France and their improbable literary success, has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Li will receive $15,000 for the PEN/Faulkner. She has published both novels and story collections and received numerous other prizes, including the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, presented to her last December.

tips

mischievous：adj. 淘气的，恶意的

improbable：奇异的，不大可能发生的