What is not yours is not yours : stories / Helen Oyeyemi.
By: Oyeyemi, Helen [author.].
Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2016Description: 325 pages ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781594634635 (hardcover).Uniform titles: Short stories. Selections Contained works: Oyeyemi, Helen. Books and roses.Genre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | PR6115.Y49 A6 2016 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000006379 |
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.
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.