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Curandera (Hardcover)
Irenosen Okojie
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R572
R458
Discovery Miles 4 580
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A cross between Perfume and The Secret History, Curandera explores
the darker elements of shamanism, desire and friendship. In the
mountainous town of Gethsemane, a mysterious woman's arrival sparks
a series of strange events that will leave the town's inhabitants
changed - men sporadically blind in the afternoons, children
disappearing and reappearing without warning and infertile women
pregnant with the memories of past births. In London, Therese, a
botanist, is quietly on the hunt for a rare form of peyote. Therese
lives with three friends in a Victorian house, Azacca, a Haitian
musician who leaves offerings, Peruvian drifter Emilien who is
haunted by the past and adventurous Finn, who is increasingly drawn
to living life on the edge. When Therese discovers she can heal the
sick, jealousy and resentment fracture their bond.
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Reverse Engineering (Paperback)
Jon McGregor, Sarah Hall, Irenosen Okojie, Chris Power, Jessie Greengrass, …
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R298
R243
Discovery Miles 2 430
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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The amphibious cult classic: a magical tale of a suburban
housewife's affair with a frogman ... 'Disturbing but seductive ...
Wonderful.' Margaret Atwood 'Perfect.' Max Porter 'Still outpaces,
out-weirds, and out-romances anything today.' Marlon James 'A
feminist masterpiece: tender, erotic, singular.' Carmen Maria
Machado ''Genius ... A broadcast from a stranger and more dazzling
dimension.' Patricia Lockwood 'Kind of weird and cool. ' Irvine
Welsh 'Genius ... Like Revolutionary Road written by Franz Kafka
... Exquisite.' The Times 'Incredibly liberates readers from the
awfulness of convention to a state where weirdness and otherness
are beautiful.' Sarah Hall 'A devastating fable of mythic
proportions ... Wondrously peculiar.' Irenosen Okojie (foreword)
Dorothy is a grieving housewife in the Californian suburbs; her
husband is unfaithful, but they are too unhappy to get a divorce.
One day, she is doing chores when she hears strange voices on the
radio announcing that a green-skinned sea monster has escaped from
the Institute for Oceanographic Research - but little does she
expect him to arrive in her kitchen. Muscular, vegetarian, sexually
magnetic, Larry the frogman is a revelation - and their passionate
affair takes them on a journey beyond their wildest dreams ...
Rachel Ingalls's Mrs Caliban is a bittersweet fable, a subversive
fairy tale, as magical today as it was four decades ago 'A miracle
. A perfect novel.' New Yorker 'Every one of its 125 pages is
perfect ... Clear a Saturday, please, and read it in a single
sitting.' Harper's What Readers Are Saying: 'Maybe the most
gorgeous, lyrical book ever written'***** 'A fantastic wee novel,
strange and brilliant, and absolutely the inspiration for The Shape
of Water.'***** 'Wonderful, sharp minimal prose offers big truths.
Superb - brilliant, in fact.'***** 'Absolutely incredible. It's
weird, funny, and heartbreaking, like a Richard Yates novel except
with lizardman sex.'***** 'One of the best tongue-in-cheek social
satires that I've ever read. It delves into gender politics. It
takes a long, hard look at mental health. It addresses female
sexual freedom and agency. It asks the reader to examine what it
means to be human ... Genius.'***** 'Really brilliant: a
deconstruction of suburbia by way of monster movies that examines
sad realities with hilarious verve ... Sometimes you need a sexy
frog person to break you out of the ties that bind. '***** 'Hooked
me so deeply I picked it up and finished it the same night ...
Beautiful ... Will stay with me.'***** 'What the hell just
happened?'*****
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Curandera (Paperback)
Irenosen Okojie
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R395
R316
Discovery Miles 3 160
Save R79 (20%)
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Ships in 5 - 10 working days
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A cross between Perfume and The Secret History, Curandera explores
the darker elements of shamanism, desire and friendship. In the
mountainous town of Gethsemane, a mysterious woman's arrival sparks
a series of strange events that will leave the town's inhabitants
changed - men sporadically blind in the afternoons, children
disappearing and reappearing without warning and infertile women
pregnant with the memories of past births. In London, Therese, a
botanist, is quietly on the hunt for a rare form of peyote. Therese
lives with three friends in a Victorian house, Azacca, a Haitian
musician who leaves offerings, Peruvian drifter Emilien who is
haunted by the past and adventurous Finn, who is increasingly drawn
to living life on the edge. When Therese discovers she can heal the
sick, jealousy and resentment fracture their bond.
'Engaging, modern fables with a feminist tang' Sunday Times DARK,
POTENT AND UNCANNY, HAG BURSTS WITH THE UNTOLD STORIES OF OUR
ISLES, CAPTURED IN VOICES AS VARIED AS THEY ARE VIVID. Here are
sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant
archaeologist unearthing impossible bones and lost children
following you home. A panther runs through the forests of England
and pixies prey upon violent men. From the islands of Scotland to
the coast of Cornwall, the mountains of Galway to the depths of the
Fens, these forgotten folktales howl, cackle and sing their way
into the 21st century, wildly reimagined by some of the most
exciting women writing in Britain and Ireland today. 'A thoroughly
original package that has a hint of Angela Carter' The Times 'Sharp
writing and cleverly done' Spectator
'Okojie is a dazzlingly wild, bold and imaginative writer who tells
stories with captivating originality and intense drama' Bernardine
Evaristo 'Dazzling . . . A feast for the senses' Diana Evans Winner
of the AKO Cain Prize ____________ In this collection of short
stories, offbeat characters are caught up in extraordinary
situations that test the boundaries of reality . . . A love-hungry
goddess of the sea arrives on an island inhabited by eunuchs. A
girl from Martinique moonlights as a Grace Jones impersonator.
Dimension-hopping monks sworn to silence must face a bloody
reckoning. And a homeless man goes right back, to the very
beginning, through a gap in time. Nudibranch is a dark and
seductive foray into the surreal. ____________ PRAISE FOR IRENOSEN
OKOJIE 'One of the most original and innovative writers to emerge
in many a year' ALEX WHEATLE MBE 'Okojie has a sharp eye for the
twisting stories of the city, and a turn of phrase that switches
from elegance to brutality in a single line' STELLA DUFFY
"Precise and illuminating." - Bernardine Evaristo OBE. Shortlisted
for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, the Saboteur Awards, the
Shirley Jackson Award and the Jhalak Prize. Lovelorn aliens abduct
innocent coffee shop waitresses. Ghosts of errant Londoners haunt
the Underground, caught between here and the hereafter. Brave young
women seek erotic empowerment... at their own peril. These are the
worlds of Speak Gigantular, the startling debut short story
collection from acclaimed author Irenosen Okojie MBE. Understated
in her humour and razor-sharp in her observations of humankind,
Okojie's eclectic anthology offers an unflinching gaze into the
darkest corners of the human experience. Sexy, serious, and often
downright disturbing, this brilliant debut collection sizzles with
originality. "A work of rare confidence, luminous imagery and full
of hidden sharp edges." - Nina Allan, winner of the Grand Prix de
l'Imaginaire. "Irenosen Okojie's Speak Gigantular should, if there
is any literary justice, place her in a circle with writers like
Shirley Jackson, Margaret Atwood, and Angela Carter." - New Orleans
Review.
The collection brings together the five stories on the 2020
shortlist. The authors shortlisted for the 2020 AKO Caine Prize
are: Jowhor Ile (Nigeria) for Fisherman's Stew, Remy Ngamije
(Rwanda/Namibia) for The Neighbourhood Watch and Irenosen Okojie
(Nigeria) for Grace Jones. The 2020 judging panel comprises:
Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp (Chair) has over 35 years' experience in
the UK arts and cultural sector, including a 25-year career as a
dancer, choreographer, teacher and director. Since May 2018 he has
been Director of The Africa Centre. Audrey Brown is a South African
broadcast journalist, who currently presents the BBC World Service
flagship daily news and current affairs programme, Focus on Africa.
Gabriel Gbadamosi is an Irish-Nigerian poet and playwright. His
London novel Vauxhall (2013) won the Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize
and Best International Novel at the Sharjah Book Fair. James Murua
is a Kenya-based blogger, journalist, podcaster and editor who has
written for a variety of media outlets in a career spanning print,
web and TV. Ebisse Wakjira-Rouw is an Ethiopian-born non-fiction
editor, podcaster, publisher and policy advisor at the Dutch
Council for Culture in the Netherlands.
Winner of the Betty Trask Award 2016. "A novel of epic
proportions... I fully expect to see Butterfly Fish on many an
award nomination list." - Yvette Edwards "A stunningly well-written
book, juggling different timescales with great skill. Benin itself
is vividly imagined in a historical narrative that runs in parallel
with the contemporary London one. It is a wonderful novel." - Simon
Brett OBE "A wonderful, richly drawn novel, cleverly juxtaposing
scenes from everyday London with African folklore and mysticism." -
Joanne Harris A stunning debut from the author of Speak Gigantular.
A fragile outsider living in London, Joy struggles to pull the
threads of her life back together after her mother's sudden death.
Emptiness consumes her and, needing to fill the gaps of her loss,
she finds she is drawn to a unique artefact inherited from her
mother - a warrior's head cast in brass that belonged to a king in
eighteenth century Benin, Nigeria. Joy is haunted by a beautiful
young woman who appears in her photographs, familiar yet
beguilingly distinct, the woman trails her wherever she goes. Joy
begins to dream of a different time, a different place. She feels
an inexplicable pull towards this mysterious female, and a past
revealing itself through clues is scattered in her path. As family
secrets come to light, she unearths the ties between her mother,
grandfather, the wife of the king, a fearsome warrior, and the
brass head's pivotal connection to them all. Haunting and
compelling, Butterfly Fish is a richly told story of love and hope;
of family secrets, power, political upheaval, loss and coming
undone.
'A stellar cast of writers and thinkers' Nathan Filer An explorer
spends a decade preparing for an expedition to the South Pole; what
happens when you live for a goal, but once it's been accomplished,
you discover it's not enough? A successful broadcast journalist
ends up broke, drunk and sleeping rough; what makes alcohol so hard
to resist despite its ruinous consequences? A teenage girl tries to
disappear by starving herself; what is this force that compels so
many women to reduce their size so drastically? In this essay
collection, writers share the struggles that have shaped their
lives - loss, depression, addiction, anxiety, trauma, identity and
others. But as they take you on a journey to the darkest recesses
of their mind, the authors grapple with challenges that haunt us
all.
Betty Trask Award winner 2016. A stunning debut from the author of
Speak Gigantular. A fragile outsider living in London, Joy
struggles to pull the threads of her life back together after her
mother's sudden death. Emptiness consumes her and, needing to fill
the gaps of her loss, she finds she is drawn to a unique artefact
inherited from her mother - a warrior's head cast in brass that
belonged to a king in eighteenth century Benin, Nigeria. Joy is
haunted by a beautiful young woman who appears in her photographs,
familiar yet beguilingly distinct, the woman trails her wherever
she goes. Joy begins to dream of a different time, a different
place. She feels an inexplicable pull towards this mysterious
female, and a past revealing itself through clues is scattered in
her path. As family secrets come to light, she unearths the ties
between her mother, grandfather, the wife of the king, a fearsome
warrior, and the brass head's pivotal connection to them all.
Haunting and compelling, Butterfly Fish is a richly told story of
love and hope; of family secrets, power, political upheaval, loss
and coming undone. 'a novel of epic proportions... I fully expect
to see Butterfly Fish on many an award nomination list.' Yvvette
Edwards 'A stunningly well-written book, juggling different
timescales with great skill. Benin itself is vividly imagined in a
historical narrative that runs in parallel with the contemporary
London one. It is a wonderful novel." Simon Brett OBE 'A wonderful,
richly drawn novel, cleverly juxtaposing scenes from everyday
London with African folklore and mysticism.' Joanne Harris
Shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, the Saboteur
Awards, the Shirley Jackson Award and the Jhalak Prize. A startling
debut short story collection from the award-winning author of
Butterfly Fish. Okojie's collection of stories are captivating,
erotic, enigmatic and disturbing. Irenosen Okojie's gift is in her
understated humour, her light touch, her razor-sharp assessment of
the best and worst of humankind, and her unflinching gaze into the
darkest corners of the human experience. Okojie has created a world
with errant Londoners caught between here and the hereafter, where
insensitive men cheat on their mistresses and can only muster
enough interest to fall for one- dimensional poster girls and where
brave young women attempt to be erotically empowered at their own
peril. Sexy, serious and at times downright disturbing, this
brilliant debut collection sizzles with originality.
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