Parasol Against the Axe - Helen Oyeyemi

Helen Oyeyemi

Category: Adults

Tags: Adults, Fantasy

A shape-shifting novel about the power of storiesHelen Oyeyemi is a literary pied piperher voice is the kind that readers gamely follow into the most bewildering and unnerving of situations.The New York Times, A metatextual masterpiece.Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW, Oyeyemi writes here as an heir to Calvino or BorgesA dizzying, dazzling romp.Kirkus Reviews, The prize-winning, bestselling author of Peaces and Gingerbread returns with a novel about competitive friendship, the elastic boundaries of storytelling, and the meddling influence of a city called Prague, In Helen Oyeyemis joyous new novel, the Czech capital is a living thingone that can let you in or spit you out., For reasons of her own, Hero Tojosoa accepts an invitation she was half expected to decline, and finds herself in Prague on a bachelorette weekend hosted by her estranged friend Sofie. Little does she know shes arrived in a city with a penchant for playing tricks on the unsuspecting. A book Hero has brought with he