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What is not yours is not yours : stories

Call Number

  • FICTION OYEY (CEN, OSH)

Publication Information

New York : Riverhead Books, 2016.

Physical Description

325 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

The stories collected in What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours 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.

Contents

  • 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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