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.
ISBN: | 9781447299394 |
Publication date: | 9th February 2017 |
Author: | Helen Oyeyemi |
Publisher: | Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 272 pages |
Genres: |
Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales Magical realism Shorter Reads |