Verdict: carrot
Helen Oyeyemi’s novels boost the playful incorporation of myth, folklore and fairy tale, ranging widely over the territories and cultures in which those endlessly recirculating, subtly mutating narratives become embedded.
From the doppelgängers of her debut novel Icarus Girl, written while she was still at school and published in 2005, to the melding of Yoruba and Cuba in The Opposite House, the central ghost story of White is for Witching and the reimagining of the story of Bluebeard in Mr Fox, Oyeyemi has demonstrated that she has both an itinerant fascination with the world’s stories and a strong tendency to return to a smaller clutch of suggestive themes.
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- Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
EAN: 9781447254225
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