Helen Oyeyemi
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Хелен Ойейеми (англ. Helen Olajumoke Oyeyemi, 10 декабря 1984, Нигерия) – британская писательница нигерийского происхождения. В четырехлетнем возрасте приехала вместе с родителями в Великобританию. Первый роман написала еще восемнадцатилетней школьницей. Во время её учебы в Corpus Christi College Кембриджского университета однокашники поставили и сыграли две её пьесы. В 2007 Bloomsbury Publishing опубликовал второй роман писательницы Дом напротив, построенный на мотивах афрокубинской мифологии....
Хелен Ойейеми (англ. Helen Olajumoke Oyeyemi, 10 декабря 1984, Нигерия) – британская писательница нигерийского происхождения. В четырехлетнем возрасте приехала вместе с родителями в Великобританию. Первый роман написала еще восемнадцатилетней школьницей. Во время её учебы в Corpus Christi College Кембриджского университета однокашники поставили и сыграли две её пьесы. В 2007 Bloomsbury Publishing опубликовал второй роман писательницы Дом напротив, построенный на мотивах афрокубинской мифологии. В 2009 она была названа в числе 25-ти женщин моложе 25-ти лет - "лиц" международного журнала Venus Zine.Helen Oyeyemi is a British novelist. She was born in Nigeria and moved to London when she was four. She wrote her first novel, The Icarus Girl, while still at school studying for her A levels. After sending the first 20 pages to a publisher, she was offered two-book deal worth a rumoured £400,000. She studied Social and Political Sciences at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, graduating in 2006. Whilst at Cambridge, two of her plays, Juniper's Whitening and Victimese, were performed by fellow students to critical acclaim and subsequently published by Methuen. In 2007 Bloomsbury published her second novel, The Opposite House which is inspired by Cuban mythology. She lives in London but currently resides in New York.(Википедия)Личный блог
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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 ...
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 L...
Jessamy Harrison, age eight, is the child of an English father and a Nigerian mother. Possessed of an extraordinary imagination, she has a hard time fitting in at school. It is only when she visits Nigeria for the first time that she makes a friend who understands her: a ragged little girl named TillyTilly. But soon TillyTilly?s visits become more disturbing, until Jess realizes she doesn?t actual...
Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories--equal parts wholesome and uncanny, from the tantalizing witch's house in "Hansel and Gretel" to the man-shaped confection who one day decides to run as fast as he can--beloved novelist Helen Oyeyemi invites readers into a delightful tale of a surprising family legacy, in which the inheritance is a recipe....
High on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the loss of Lily, mother of twins Eliot and Miranda, and beloved wife of Luc. Miranda misses her with particular intensity. Their mazy, capricious house belonged to her mother's ancestors, and to Miranda, newly attuned to spirits, newly hungry for chalk, it seems they have never left. Forcing apples to grow in winter, revealing ...
What makes a marriage? Is it the end of fairytale romance? It might be if your husband is the writer Mr Fox, who does devilish things to the heroines of his stories. His wife is unable to change his ways, but when his imaginary muse conjures herself one sunny afternoon and confronts him, things take an unexpected turn.
