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The Opposite House

By Helen Oyeyemi

By Helen Oyeyemi

By Helen Oyeyemi

By Helen Oyeyemi

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Jun 10, 2008 | ISBN 9781400078769

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Jun 10, 2008 | ISBN 9780307455642

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    About The Opposite House

    Lyrical and intensely moving, The Opposite House explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young women. Growing up in London, Maja, a singer, always struggled to negotiate her Afro-Cuban background with her physical home. Yemaya is a Santeria emissary who lives in a mysterious somewherehouse with two doors: one opening to London, the other to Lagos. She is troubled by the ease with which her fellow emissaries have disguised themselves behind the personas of saints and by her inability to recognize them. Interweaving these two tales. Helen Oyeyemi, acclaimed author of The Icarus Girl, spins a dazzling tale about faith, identity, and self-discovery.

    About The Opposite House

    Lyrical and intensely moving, The Opposite House explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young women. Growing up in London, Maja, a singer, always struggled to negotiate her Afro-Cuban background with her physical home. Yemaya is a Santeria emissary who lives in a mysterious somewherehouse with two doors: one opening to London, the other to Lagos. She is troubled by the ease with which her fellow emissaries have disguised themselves behind the personas of saints and by her inability to recognize them. Interweaving these two tales. Helen Oyeyemi, acclaimed author of The Icarus Girl, spins a dazzling tale about faith, identity, and self-discovery.

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    About Helen Oyeyemi

    Helen Oyeyemi is the author of seven novels, including Peaces, Gingerbread, and Boy, Snow, Bird, and of the story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours. Winner of the PEN Open Book and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a… More about Helen Oyeyemi

    About Helen Oyeyemi

    Helen Oyeyemi is the author of seven novels, including Peaces, Gingerbread, and Boy, Snow, Bird, and of the story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours. Winner of the PEN Open Book and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a… More about Helen Oyeyemi

    Product Details

    Category: Contemporary Fantasy | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $14.95
    Published by Anchor
    Jun 10, 2008 | 272 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781400078769

    Category: Contemporary Fantasy | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Anchor
    Jun 10, 2008 | 272 Pages | ISBN 9780307455642

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    Praise

    “Complex, challenging, utterly thrilling.” —The Miami Herald“A startling literary prodigy. . . . [Oyeyemi] has the ability to shift between realism and expressionism without surrendering to self-indulgence. . . . Recalls the visionary worlds of Emily Dickinson, Neruda and even Rimbaud.” —The Washington Post Book World “Beautiful, meandering. . . . [A novel] about the difficulties of knowing who you are, especially if you are born of several incompatible cultures.” —The Times (London)“Again displays [Oyeyemi’s] amazing sure-handedness that is far beyond her years.” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer

    Awards

    Hurston/Wright Legacy Award NOMINEE 2008

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