What is not yours is not yours
Subtitle: stories
By: Helen Oyeyemi
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780143197836
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Locks and keys; Fiction; Man-woman relationships
Description: From the award-winning author of "Boy, Snow, Bird" comes an enchanting and thought-provoking collection of intertwined stories. Playful, ambitious, and exquisitely imagined, the stories are cleverly built around the idea of keys, literal and metaphorical. The key to a house, the key to a heart, the key to a secret - Oyeyemi's keys not only unlock elements of her characters' lives, they promise further labyrinths on the other side. As ever, Oyeyemi's creative vision and storytelling are effervescent, wise, and insightful, and her tales span multiple times and landscapes as they tease boundaries between coexisting realities.
Table of contents: title: books and roses --; title: "sorry" doesn't sweeten her tea --; title: is your blood as red as this? --; title: drownings --; title: presence --; title: a brief history of the homely wench society --; title: dornička and the st. martin's day goose --; title: freddy barrandov checks ... in? --; title: if a book is locked there is probably a good reason for that don't you think.