Penguin
March 2013
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Featuring: Emily
240 pages ISBN: 0143122673 EAN: 9780143122678 Kindle: B008EXJYYS Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Have you ever wanted to disappear and make a new life for yourself where no one knows your name?Ten White Geese is the eagerly anticipated, internationally bestselling new novel by the winner of the world's richest literary prize for a single work of fiction. A woman rents a remote farm in rural Wales. She says her name is Emilie. An Emily Dickinson scholar, she has fled Amsterdam, having just confessed to an affair. On the farm she finds ten geese. One by one they disappear. Who is this woman? Will her husband manage to find her? The young man who stays the night: why won’t he leave? And the vanishing geese? Set against a stark and pristine landscape, and with a seductive blend of solace and menace, this novel of stealth intrigue summons from a woman’s silent longing fugitive moments of profound beauty and compassion.
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