-- What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours From the Hardcover edition.
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
โ Scribed by Oyeyemi, Helen
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 180 KB
- Edition
- 2
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
"Transcendent." --The New York Times Book Review
" Flawless. . . another masterpiece from an author who seems incapable of writing anything that's less than brilliant."** --NPR
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 Roses" one special key opens a library, a garden, and clues to at least two lovers' fates. In "Is Your Blood as Red as This?" an unlikely key opens the heart of a student at a puppeteering school. "'Sorry' Doesn't Sweeten Her Tea" involves a "house of locks," where...
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