Helen Oyeyemi
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From the prizewinning author of Mr. Fox, the Snow White fairy tale brilliantly recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity. In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty-the opposite of the life she's left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never...
2) Mr. Fox
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction
One of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists
From the prizewinning young writer of What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, Gingerbread, and Peaces comes a brilliant and inventive story of love, lies, and inspiration.
Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding, and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, the celebrated...
One of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists
From the prizewinning young writer of What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, Gingerbread, and Peaces comes a brilliant and inventive story of love, lies, and inspiration.
Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding, and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, the celebrated...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the award-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird and Mr. Fox comes an enchanting collection of intertwined stories. Playful, ambitious, and exquisitely imagined, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours is 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. In "Books and...
5) Peaces
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment - and to get them out of her house. Setting off with their pet mongoose, Otto and Xavier arrive at their sleepy local train station, but quickly deduce that The Lucky Day is no ordinary locomotive. Their trip on this former tea-smuggling train has been curated beyond their wildest imaginations, complete with mysterious and welcoming...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
"Lo que no es tuyo no es tuyo" es una colección de relatos que comparten entre sí algo más que la colorida prosa de su autora: las llaves, literales y metafóricas, que desvelan secretos y abren por igual puertas y corazones. En un cuento dan acceso a una biblioteca perdida y a un jardín oculto en Barcelona, dos lugares que serán la clave del destino de las protagonistas; en otro, abren el corazón de una alumna en una escuela de marionetas;...
7) El señor Fox
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
Los amores en los cuentos de hadas siempre acaban en boda, al menos en los cuentos que no quieren complicarse demasiado. Éste no es el caso de la historia del señor Fox, un afamado escritor que no puede evitar matar a todas las protagonistas de sus novelas, incluida su esposa Daphne. Pero un día Mary, su musa, se hace real y transforma al autor en un personaje literario, con lo que la vida del señor Fox da un giro sorprendente. Mary le desafía...