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Helen Oyeyemi

Autor/a de Boy, Snow, Bird

12+ obres 7,583 Membres 312 Ressenyes 9 preferits

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Helen Oyeyemi was born on December 10, 1984 in Nigeria. She attended Corpus Christie College and later graduated form Cambridge University in 2006. She has authored seven books including: Boy, Snow, Bird, What is Not Yours in Not Yours, Mr. Fox and The Icarus Girl. She won the PEN/Open Book Award mostra'n més in 2017 for "What is Not Yours is Not Yours". (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys

Obres de Helen Oyeyemi

Boy, Snow, Bird (2014) 1,797 exemplars
White Is for Witching (2009) 1,190 exemplars
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours (2016) 1,168 exemplars
Mr. Fox (2011) 1,028 exemplars
The Icarus Girl (2005) 942 exemplars
Gingerbread (2019) 826 exemplars
Peaces (2021) 328 exemplars
The Opposite House (2007) 252 exemplars

Obres associades

Thus were their faces (2015) — Introducció, algunes edicions346 exemplars
Anonymous Sex (2022) — Col·laborador — 61 exemplars
Granta 129: Fate (2014) — Col·laborador — 58 exemplars
Furies: Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed (2023) — Col·laborador — 57 exemplars
When Rain Clouds Gather AND Maru (1968) — Introducció, algunes edicions40 exemplars
African Love Stories: An Anthology (2006) — Col·laborador — 38 exemplars

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British Author Challenge August 2021: Helen Oyeyemi & Bernard Cornwell a 75 Books Challenge for 2021 (novembre 2021)

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My library suggested this, and it was delightful! Thanks, Henry County Library!
 
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ledonnelly | Hi ha 31 ressenyes més | Mar 11, 2024 |
I got a little over 20 pages in and I just can't go any further with this. Definitely a Not Me book.
 
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wyvernfriend | Hi ha 50 ressenyes més | Feb 13, 2024 |
Personally, that was a baffling waste of time with a few nicely written lines. This one star is more "I didn't like it" than "it was bad." Definitely people who will enjoy this, just... Not me.

See the full review & more here!

Recommended: Not really, but some people would def like it
Stay away if: you like to understand what the characters are (human? fairy? are they even ALIVE?), or what they are doing, or what they are talking about, or what is happening at any point in the story

Go for it if you know you like magical realism that is very ambiguous and leaves almost everything up to interpretation. This might also be good for book groups or buddy reads, so long as you have people who are willing to talk about every chapter as you go to try to figure out wtf you're reading about

Thoughts:
My face 100% of the time in this book:


I don't have a lot of thoughts that are coherent, because so much of this story was a muddled "what is happening" for me. I can't even identify who was technically the narrator of most of the story, because it clearly WASN'T Harriet, despite it being shaded that way. Anyway... this was a struggle for me. I kept going, because by the time I realized it wasn't going to get any clearer, I was like 75% done and figured I'd just wrap it up.

Simple things are questions, that I feel like should not be questions:
- What are the dolls?? They're like, alive plant-doll hybrids?
- What's the deal with the gingerbread? Is it poisoned, or.. imbued with magical forces??
- At one point they said something like, when they arrived out of Druhástrana, they thought their bones were melted and they were poured out of a container like a vat of custard. I can't even begin to understand what's happening there.

So... maybe if I had been reading this with people I could discuss it with, it would have gone better. As it is, I feel like I would need to analyze theme and symbolism and read some analytical essays to even understand the basic plot of what happened. Frankly, I'm not willing to do that with this. I just don't do well with magical realism sometimes....
… (més)
 
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Jenniferforjoy | Hi ha 31 ressenyes més | Jan 29, 2024 |
3.5 rounded up. The writing is beautiful and the stories were all enjoyable. Oyeyemi is fantastic at creating a scene and setting a mood but in some cases I wanted more substance. Will definitely read more by her.
 
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mmcrawford | Hi ha 33 ressenyes més | Dec 5, 2023 |

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Membres
7,583
Popularitat
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Ressenyes
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ISBN
166
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Preferit
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