What is not yours is not yours
stories
by Helen Oyeyemi
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From the award-winning author of "Boy, Snow, Bird" comes an enchanting and thought-provoking collection of intertwined stories. Playful, ambitious, and exquisitely imagined, the stories are cleverly built around the idea of keys, literal and metaphorical. The key to a house, the key to a heart, the key to a secret - Oyeyemi's keys not only unlock elements of her characters' lives, they promise further labyrinths on the other side. As ever, Oyeyemi's creative vision and storytelling are effervescent, wise, and insightful, and her tales span multiple times and landscapes as they tease boundaries between coexisting realities.
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Short stories, Fiction, short stories (single author), New York Times reviewed, Locks and keys, Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Libraries, Gardens, City and town life, Puppets, Books, Relations entre hommes et femmes, Romans, nouvelles, FICTION, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Magical Realism, Short Stories (single author), English Short stories, Nouvelles, General, Fantasy, Mythology, Short Stories, Pr6115.y49 a6 2016b, 823/.92Showing 9 featured editions. View all 9 editions?
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Was du nicht hast, das brauchst du nicht
Oct 08, 2018, CulturBooks Verlag
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Krótka historia Stowarzyszenia Nieurodziwych Dziewuch
2018, Wydwnictwo Uniersytetu Jagiellońskiego
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What is Not Yours is Not Yours
Aug 24, 2017, Picador (22 February 2017)
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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.
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