Fable
By Charles Yu
2016
First Published
4.10
Average Rating
30
Number of Pages
In May 2016, Charles Yu published a short story in the New Yorker, Fable, in which a psychiatrist suggested to his patient to tell about his life in the form of a fantasy story. The man gives in to the exercise. And Charles Yu writes one of the most touching and fine stories you will ever read. A short story illustrated by Tom Gauld. This story can be read in English on the New Yorker website. On this site, you will also find an audio version of the text, read by Charles Yu himself.
Avg Rating
4.10
Number of Ratings
94
5 STARS
44%
4 STARS
31%
3 STARS
19%
2 STARS
4%
1 STARS
2%
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Author
Charles Yu
Author · 12 books
CHARLES YU is the author of four books, including his latest, Interior Chinatown, which won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction, and was shortlisted for Le Prix Médicis étranger. He has received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, been nominated for two Writers Guild of America awards for his work on the HBO series Westworld, and has also written for shows on FX, AMC, Facebook Watch, and Adult Swim. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in a number of publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Wired, Time and Ploughshares. You can find him on Twitter @charles_yu.
