The Opposite House - Brossura

Oyeyemi, Helen

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1400078768 ISBN 13: 9781400078769

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2008

Riassunto

A provocative exploration of the thin wall that exists between myth and reality chronicles the alternating stories of two young women--Maja Carmen Carrerra, the daughter of a black Cuban couple living in England who longs for a connection to her African roots, and Yemaya Saramgua, a Yoruba goddess in the Somewherehouse--in search of the meaning of faith and identity. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Complex, challenging, utterly thrilling.” —The Miami Herald“A startling literary prodigy. . . . [Oyeyemi] has the ability to shift between realism and expressionism without surrendering to self-indulgence. . . . Recalls the visionary worlds of Emily Dickinson, Neruda and even Rimbaud.” —The Washington Post Book World “Beautiful, meandering. . . . [A novel] about the difficulties of knowing who you are, especially if you are born of several incompatible cultures.” —The Times (London)“Again displays [Oyeyemi's] amazing sure-handedness that is far beyond her years.” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer

L'autore:

Helen Oyeyemi was born in Nigeria in 1984 and has lived in London since the age of four. She completed her first novel The Icarus Girl before her nineteenth birthday. She graduated from Cambridge University in June 2006 and lives in London. The Opposite House is her second novel.

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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1400078768
• ISBN 13: 9781400078769
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272