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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
- 331 pages ยท about 6 hours
- First published 2016
- 9 editions
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1 About this book
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.
Good for readers who want: magical realism, fantasy, and mythology.
- Relationships
- Magical Realism
- Fantasy
- Mythology
- Short stories
- Libraries
- Gardens
- City and town life
2 About Helen Oyeyemi
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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