What is not yours is not yours : stories

Oyeyemi, Helen (author.). Oyeyemi, Helen Books and roses. (Added Author).

Summary: The stories collected here are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another. The reader is invited into a world of lost libraries and locked gardens, of marshlands where the drowned dead live and a city where all the clocks have stopped; students hone their skills at puppet school, the Homely Wench Society commits a guerrilla book-swap, and lovers exchange books and roses on St Jordi's Day. It is a collection of towering imagination, marked by baroque beauty and a deep sensuousness.

Item details

ISBN: 9781594634635
ISBN: 1594634637
Physical Description: print
325 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2016.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

Books and roses -- "Sorry" doesn't sweeten her tea -- Is your blood as red as this? -- Drownings -- Presence -- A brief history of the homely wench society -- Dornicka and the St. Martin's Day goose -- Freddy Barrandov checks ... in? -- If a book is locked there is probably a good reason for that don't you think.

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Subject:

Locks and keys Fiction
Man-woman relationships Fiction
Libraries Fiction
Gardens Fiction
City and town life Fiction
Puppets Fiction
Books Fiction
Man-woman relationships Fiction
Locks and keys
Man-woman relationships
FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
FICTION / Magical Realism
FICTION / Short Stories (single author)

Genre:

Short stories, English -- Women authors, Black.
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Fiction.
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