Helen Oyeyemi

Oyeyemi s imagination is impressive and vast Guardian The glorious new novel from the landmark author a once in a lifetime trip

Jessamy Harrison is eight years old. 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 cant shake off the feeling of being alone wherever she goes. This is a novel about spirits, twins and an extraordinary little girl.

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he 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.

Boy Novak turns 20 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.

En el invierno de 1953 la joven Boy Novak, huyendo de su cruel padre, llega por azar a una pequeña población de Massachusetts, donde conoce a Arturo Whitman, un joven viudo y padre de una niña de seis años, Snow, cuya belleza causa en los adultos un embeleso inquietante. Tras el matrimonio de Boy con Arturo y el nacimiento de su hija Bird, las cosas cambiaran para Snow: Boy decidira que su hijastra debe marcharse a vivir con una tia, lejos de su familia. En esta novela, que afianza a Oyeyemi como una de las escritoras mas originales y audaces de la ultima decada, la autora desbarata los inveterados estereotipos que durante siglos hantiranizado el imaginario y las vidas de generaciones de mujeres, creando un relato tan fabuloso y alegorico como los cuentos de hadas tradicionales, pero mucho mas compasivo.

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.

Jessamy tiene ocho años. Sensible, enigmática, poseedora de una imaginación desbordante y poderosa, se pasa las horas escribiendo haiku, leyendo a Shakespeare o sencillamente escondida en la oscura calidez del armario de las toallas. Hija entre dos mundos de padre ingles y madre nigeriana, Jess es incapaz de deshacerse del sentimiento de soledad que la embarga este donde este, y sus compañeros de clase observan con recelo su tendencia a sufrir terribles ataques de histeria. Cuando visita por primera vez el poblado de la familia de su madre en Nigeria, conoce a sus tios, tias, primos y a su formidable abuelo. Ademas, un dia, se topa con TillyTilly, una niña indigente de su edad. Parece que Jess ha encontrado por fin a otra inadaptada que la comprendera. TillyTilly conoce todos los secretos, los grandes y los pequeños, y guarda algunos que no esta dispuesta a desvelar. Pero cuando TillyTilly le muestra a Jess lo facil que es herir a quienes la rodean, Jess empieza a darse cuenta de que no tiene ni la mas remota idea de quien es la otra niña.Lirica, poetica, estremecedora y absorbente, La niña icaro anuncia la llegada de un nuevo talento literario.

Peaces is the story of Otto and Xavier Shin, a couple who embark from Kent on a mysterious train that takes them far beyond any destination they could have anticipated.

A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam. - Ali SmithThe hugely anticipated new novel from the beloved author, shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2022.

Magical. O, the Oprah MagazineIntoxicating. New York MagazineOyeyemi is a master. New York TimesFrom the prize-winning, bestselling author of Gingerbread - a brilliant, wise, strange and, above all,

A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam Ali Smith, author of How to be BothInfluenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic childrens 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 theres 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 Oyeyemis inimitable style and imagination, Gingerbread is a true feast for the reader.

The stories collected in What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemis 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 Jordis Day. It is a collection of towering imagination, marked by baroque beauty and a deep sensuousness.

Haunting in every sense, White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi is a spine-tingling tribute to the power of magic, myth and memory.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 mothers 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 . . .

A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam.ALI SMITHEntirely original.STYLISTOyeyemi has mastered the art of bold, expansive storytelling. IRENOSEN OKOJIEA writer we should be delirious to have as a contemporary.INDEPENDENTThe 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.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZEIntoxicating.New York MagazineOyeyemi is a master. New York TimesWelcome back to the magical, maddening milieu of Oyeyemis 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.

"Lo que no es tuyo no es tuyo" es una colección de relatos que comparten entre sí algo más que la colorida prosa de su autora: las llaves, literales y metafóricas, que desvelan secretos y abren por igual puertas y corazones. En un cuento dan acceso a una biblioteca perdida y a un jardin oculto en Barcelona, dos lugares que seran la clave del destino de las protagonistas; en otro, abren el corazon de una alumna en una escuela de marionetas; hay llaves que protegen de los fisgones un mistico diario intimo, y otras que cierran las puertas de una inquietante "casa de las cerraduras". Tomando los cuentos de hadas como punto de partida, Helen Oyeyemi revisita la tradicion desde perspectivas insolitas y, gracias a su poderosa y brillante imaginacion, nos transporta a lugares que, como en los sueños, nos resultan tan sorprendentes como reveladores.Premio Pen Open Book 2017"Como Barbara Comyns, Helen Oyeyemi es un cruce pluscuamperfecto entre Shirley Jackson, los hermanos Grimm y cualquier enorme dama de la comedia britanica que se precie".Laura Fernandez"Oyeyemi nos lleva por caminos insospechados. El libro es un baño de imaginacion desbordante".Nuria Escur, La Vanguardia"Gloriosamente inquietante La mayor alegria de leer Oyeyemi siempre sera el estilo: irregular y caprichoso en momentos, exuberante y ondulado en otros, siempre singular, como la voz en off de un sueño febril".The New York Times Book Review"Otra obra maestra de una autora que parece incapaz de escribir algo que no sea brillante".NPR