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A collection of brand-new short stories written by major
international writers and inspired by Kafka - to commemorate one
hundred years since his death Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one
of the greatest and most enigmatic geniuses of twentieth-century
literature. Few writers have inspired as much interpretation,
adaptation and imitation as he has - from films to novels to memes
- and very few artists in any field have created work that captures
so resonantly the fraught peculiarity of our existence. What
happens when Kafka's idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the
greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today?
From a future society who ask their AI servants to construct a
giant tower to reach God; to a flat hunt that descends into a
comically absurd bureaucratic nightmare; to a population
experiencing a wave of anxiety attacks, these specially
commissioned stories speak powerfully to the strangeness of being
alive today.
**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW** 'A writer of sentences so elegant
that they gleam.' ALI SMITH 'A writer we should be delirious to
have as a contemporary.' INDEPENDENT The new novel from the
Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author Helen Oyeyemi. Oyeyemi treats
you to a kaleidoscopic weekend in Prague, as dazzling as it is
effortlessly unique. Get lost in the story like you would an
unfamiliar city and let it reward you with moments of philosophical
clarity, wheelbarrow rides, raw emotion and raw onions. This novel
is a holiday, an adventure, a marvel and a guide. It is a story
about the lies behind the lies we tell and a city as a living
thing, sustained by the lives of its inhabitants. Suffused with
warmth and joy, Parasol Against the Axe is a love letter to Prague,
and to the art of storytelling.
A collection of brand-new short stories written by major
international writers and inspired by Kafka - to commemorate one
hundred years since his death Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one
of the greatest and most enigmatic geniuses of twentieth-century
literature. Few writers have inspired as much interpretation,
adaptation and imitation as he has - from films to novels to memes
- and very few artists in any field have created work that captures
so resonantly the fraught peculiarity of our existence. What
happens when Kafka's idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the
greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today?
From a future society who ask their AI servants to construct a
giant tower to reach God; to a flat hunt that descends into a
comically absurd bureaucratic nightmare; to a population
experiencing a wave of anxiety attacks, these specially
commissioned stories speak powerfully to the strangeness of being
alive today.
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.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 'Intoxicating.' New York
Magazine 'Oyeyemi is a master.' New York Times 'Welcome back to the
magical, maddening milieu of Oyeyemi's singular fiction, in which
trapdoors spring open and revelations emerge like Russian nesting
dolls.' O, the Oprah Magazine Peaces is the story of Otto and
Xavier Shin, a couple who embark on a mysterious train journey that
takes them far beyond any destination they could have anticipated.
As the carriages roll along they discover each is more curious and
fascinating than the last, becoming embroiled in this strange train
and its intrigue. Who is Ava Kapoor, the sole full-time inhabitant
of the train, and what is her relationship to a man named Prem? Are
they passengers or prisoners? We discover who orchestrated the
journey, hurtling them all into their past for clues.
Whimsical and sinister, each story by Silvina Ocampo is like a
knife of spun sugar that can still pierce between your ribs. A
thief breaks into the house of a psychic with disastrous results, a
bride has her personality subsumed by the previous occupant of her
home, and two men switch destinies for a change of pace. The
Impostor offers a comprehensive collection from one of the
twentieth century's great forgotten woman writers. Here are tales
of doubles and living dolls, angels and demons, a beautiful seer
who writes the autobiography of her own death, and much else that
is mad, sublime, and delicious. With an array spanning the length
of Ocampo's career, these haunting stories are among the world's
strangest and best.
The fifth novel from award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi, named one
of Granta's best young British novelists. A retelling of the Snow
White myth, Boy, Snow, Bird is a deeply moving novel about an
unbreakable bond . . . BOY Novak turns twenty and decides to try
for a brand-new life. Flax Hill, Massachusetts, isn't exactly a
welcoming town, but it does have the virtue of being the last stop
on the bus route she took from New York. Flax Hill is also the
hometown of Arturo Whitman - craftsman, widower, and father of
Snow. SNOW is mild-mannered, radiant and deeply cherished - exactly
the sort of little girl Boy never was, and Boy is utterly beguiled
by her. If Snow displays a certain inscrutability at times, that's
simply a characteristic she shares with her father, harmless until
Boy gives birth to Snow's sister, Bird. When BIRD is born Boy is
forced to re-evaluate the image Arturo's family have presented to
her, and Boy, Snow and Bird are broken apart. Sparkling with wit
and vibrancy, Boy, Snow, Bird is a novel about three women and the
strange connection between them. It confirms Helen Oyeyemi's place
as one of the most original and dynamic literary voices of her
generation.
High on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from
the loss of Lily, mother of twins Eliot and Miranda, and beloved
wife of Luc. Miranda misses her with particular intensity. Their
mazy, capricious house belonged to her mother's ancestors, and to
Miranda, newly attuned to spirits, newly hungry for chalk, it seems
they have never left. Forcing apples to grow in winter, revealing
and concealing secret floors, the house is fiercely possessive of
young Miranda. Joining voices with her brother and her best friend
Ore, it tells her story: haunting in every sense, and a
spine-tingling tribute to the power of magic, myth and memory.
"Miri I conjure you . . ." 'Superbly atmospheric. The dark tones of
Poe in her haunting have the elasticity of Haruki Murakami's
surreal mental landscapes' "Independent" 'The kind of prose that
creeps off the page, crawls up the spine and burrows deep into the
reader's paralysed mind' "Daily Mail" 'White is for Witching should
establish Oyeyemi as an ambitious voice in modern macabre; master
of the light, lyrical touch and dark, half-hinted suggestion' "The
Times" 'Entrancing' "TLS" 'Helen Oyeyemi was a literary prodigy.
Now, she is ready to make the transition from wunderkind to
established author. Remarkable' "Daily Telegraph"
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Mr Fox (Paperback)
Helen Oyeyemi
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Mr Fox, by award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi, is an beautiful and
immersive exploration of the labyrinthine world of imagination,
storytelling and love. It's a bright afternoon in 1938 and Mary
Foxe is in a confrontational mood. St John Fox, celebrated
novelist, hasn't seen her in six years. He's unprepared for her
afternoon visit, not least because she doesn't exist. He's
infatuated with her. But he also made her up. Will Mr Fox meet his
muse's challenge, to stop murdering his heroines and explore
something of love? What will his wife Daphne think of this sudden
change in her husband? Can there be a happy ending - this time?
'Oyeyemi reveals a twinkling sense of humour . . . A delight' -
Independent.
Jessamy Harrison is eight years old. Sensitive, whimsical,
possessed of a powerful imagination, she spends hours writing,
reading or simply hiding in the dark warmth of the airing cupboard.
As the half-and-half child of an English father and a Nigerian
mother, Jess just can't shake off the feeling of being alone
wherever she goes, and other kids are wary of her terrified fits of
screaming. When she is taken to her mother's family compound in
Nigeria, she encounters Titiola, a ragged little girl her own age.
It seems that at last Jess has found someone who will understand
her. TillyTilly knows secrets both big and small. But, as she shows
Jess just how easy it is to hurt those around her, Jess begins to
realise that she doesn't know who TillyTilly is at all.
When Rain Clouds Gather
Escaping South Africa and his troubled past, Makehaya crosses the border to Botswana, in the hope of leading a peaceful, purposeful life. In the village of Golema Mmidi he meets Gilbert, a charismatic Englishman who is trying to modernise farming methods to benefit the community. The two outsiders join forces, but their task is fraught with hazards: opposition from the corrupt chief, the pressures of tradition, and the unrelenting climate ever threaten to bring tragedy.
Maru
Margaret, an orphan from a despised tribe, has lived her life under the loving protection of a missionary's wife. She has only to open her mouth to cause confusion, for her education and English accent do not fit her looks. When she accepts her first teaching post, in a remote village, Margaret is befriended by Dikeledi, sister of
Maru the chief-in-waiting. Despite making influential friends, Margaret faces prejudice even from the children she teaches, and her presence causes Maru and his best friend - also Dikeledi's lover - to become sworn enemies.
**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW** 'A writer of sentences so elegant
that they gleam.' ALI SMITH 'A writer we should be delirious to
have as a contemporary.' INDEPENDENT The new novel from the
Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author Helen Oyeyemi. Oyeyemi treats
you to a kaleidoscopic weekend in Prague, as dazzling as it is
effortlessly unique. Get lost in the story like you would an
unfamiliar city and let it reward you with moments of philosophical
clarity, wheelbarrow rides, raw emotion and raw onions. This novel
is a holiday, an adventure, a marvel and a guide. It is a story
about the lies behind the lies we tell and a city as a living
thing, sustained by the lives of its inhabitants. Suffused with
warmth and joy, Parasol Against the Axe is a love letter to Prague,
and to the art of storytelling.
Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award
One of "Granta"'s Best Young British Novelists
From the acclaimed author of "Boy, Snow, Bird"
There's something strange about the Silver family house in the
closed-off town of Dover, England. Grand and cavernous with hidden
passages and buried secrets, it's been home to four generations of
Silver women--Anna, Jennifer, Lily, and now Miranda, who has lived
in the house with her twin brother, Eliot, ever since their father
converted it to a bed-and-breakfast. The Silver women have always
had a strong connection, a pull over one another that reaches
across time and space, and when Lily, Miranda's mother, passes away
suddenly while on a trip abroad, Miranda begins suffering strange
ailments. An eating disorder starves her. She begins hearing
voices. When she brings a friend home, Dover's hostility toward
outsiders physically manifests within the four walls of the Silver
house, and the lives of everyone inside are irrevocably changed. At
once an unforgettable mystery and a meditation on race,
nationality, and family legacies, "White is for Witching "is a
boldly original, terrifying, and elegant novel by a prodigious
talent.
‘A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam’ – Ali Smith, author of How to be Both
Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories - equal parts wholesome and uncanny - beloved novelist Helen Oyeyemi invites readers into a delightful tale of a surprising family legacy, in which the inheritance is a recipe.
Perdita Lee and her mother Harriet may appear your average schoolgirl and working mother but they are anything but. For one thing, their home is a gold-painted seventh-floor flat with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. And then there's the gingerbread. As we follow the Lees through encounters with jealousy, ambition, family grudges, work and wealth, gingerbread seems to be the one thing that holds a constant value . . .
Endlessly surprising and satisfying, written with Helen Oyeyemi's inimitable style and imagination, Gingerbread is a true feast for the reader.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 'Intoxicating.' New York
Magazine 'Oyeyemi is a master.' New York Times 'Welcome back to the
magical, maddening milieu of Oyeyemi's singular fiction, in which
trapdoors spring open and revelations emerge like Russian nesting
dolls.' O, the Oprah Magazine Peaces is the story of Otto and
Xavier Shin, a couple who embark on a mysterious train journey that
takes them far beyond any destination they could have anticipated.
As the carriages roll along they discover each is more curious and
fascinating than the last, becoming embroiled in this strange train
and its intrigue. Who is Ava Kapoor, the sole full-time inhabitant
of the train, and what is her relationship to a man named Prem? Are
they passengers or prisoners? We discover who orchestrated the
journey, hurtling them all into their past for clues.
Two plays exploring the pain of living and the difficulty of dying
by a sensational new writer Juniper's Whitening "Tell me this - is
it true that if you make someone die, and they come out the other
side, it doesn't matter? I'm sure something clung to Lazarus.
Something must've shone through him." In Aleph, Beth and Juniper's
nightmare house, kindness is entrapment, and resurrection is a
weapon. Aleph love/hates Beth, Beth love/hates Aleph, and all
Juniper knows is that Beth can't seem to stop being murdered. One
thing above all: none of them must look out of the window.Victimese
"I was thinking, Eve, that you need to touch bottom - just so you
know you can do it. So you know it's not that difficult; so you
know that you don't have to tunnel far; so you know that you're not
that actually as deep as you think you are." Eve is unable to leave
her student room but unable to bear staying in it. In harming
herself she hopes to demonstrate her courage and independence to
both herself and her friends. But her sister's arrival and need for
her friendship forces her to face painful truths and to examine
whether it is possible to temper emotional courage with the
humanity to give and ask for aid.
Maja was five years old when her black Cuban family emigrated from
the Caribbean to London, leaving her with one complete memory: a
woman singing - in a voice both eerie and enthralling - at their
farewell party. Now, almost twenty years later, Maja herself is a
singer, pregnant and haunted by what she calls 'her Cuba'.
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