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Results for 'helen oyeyemi'
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We Do Not Part
[Han Kang’s] empathy for vulnerable, often female, lives is palpable, and reinforced by her metaphorically charged prose . . . She has a unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead, and in a poetic and experimental style has become an innovator in contemporary prose
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Glyph
Glyph’s primary power comes from its commitment to excavating the sediments of language; its etymological resonance and inference . . . Smith’s tonal skill as a writer is also used to great effect when dealing with . . . bureaucratic, authoritarian absurdity . . . It is a bold move to be so morally unflinching, especially in the face of a perceived aesthetic orthodoxy that so often privileges distance and irony, but in Glyph we see a major British writer answering the call of the day when so many others have equivocated or turned away. There is also something about Smith’s relentless focus on language that makes her particularly well suited to the task . . . Smith’s sensibility is fine-tuned to grapple with the avalanche of passive-voice headlines, asymmetric categorisations, outright linguistic inversions and semantic absurdities that have accompanied the increasingly desperate attempts to justify the unjustifiable
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Split Tooth
An Inuk girl grows up in the Artic in the 1970s. In this acclaimed debut novel - haunting, exhilarating, and tender all at once - Tagaq explores a gritty small town and the electrifying proximity of the worlds of animals and of myth.
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Palace of the Peacock (Faber Editions)
'Magnificent' - Tsitsi DangarembgaThe visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew's dreamlike jungle voyage ...'My new all time favourite book ... As their journey into the interior - their own hearts of darkness - deepens, it assumes a spiritual dimension, guiding them towards a new destination: the Palace of the Peacock ...
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Glyph
Glyph’s primary power comes from its commitment to excavating the sediments of language; its etymological resonance and inference . . . Smith’s tonal skill as a writer is also used to great effect when dealing with . . . bureaucratic, authoritarian absurdity . . . It is a bold move to be so morally unflinching, especially in the face of a perceived aesthetic orthodoxy that so often privileges distance and irony, but in Glyph we see a major British writer answering the call of the day when so many others have equivocated or turned away. There is also something about Smith’s relentless focus on language that makes her particularly well suited to the task . . . Smith’s sensibility is fine-tuned to grapple with the avalanche of passive-voice headlines, asymmetric categorisations, outright linguistic inversions and semantic absurdities that have accompanied the increasingly desperate attempts to justify the unjustifiable
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A New New Me
The breakout novel from a literary star - brilliant and deeply relatable.
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Pick a Colour
The electrifying new novel from the author of How to Pronounce KnifeFrom Giller Prize and O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labour and class, an intimate and sharply written book following a nail salon owner as she toils away for the privileged clients who don't even know her true name.
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We Do Not Part
[Han Kang’s] empathy for vulnerable, often female, lives is palpable, and reinforced by her metaphorically charged prose . . . She has a unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead, and in a poetic and experimental style has become an innovator in contemporary prose
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Bestiary
The blazing debut novel about queer desire and buried secretsThree generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this blazing debut of one family's queer desires, violent impulses and buried secrets.One evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body.
€ 13,95 -
Parasol against the Axe
'Oyeyemi's imagination is impressive and vast.' Guardian The glorious new novel from the landmark author - a once-in-a-lifetime trip.
€ 14,95 -
Furies
Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 16 bestselling, award-winning authorsAn acclaimed, fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by sixteen bestselling, award-winning writers.
€ 17,95 -
Flowers from the Void
'An impressive debut from a very talented new writer' GuardianGrotesquely gothic short stories to keep you awake all night.
€ 17,99