Helen Oyeyemi Livres

New York, 1950, elle a vingt ans quand elle fuit un père qui la maltraite. Elle s’appelle Boy Novak. Arrivée dans une petite ville du Massachusetts, elle fait la connaissance d’Arturo Whitman, qui vit avec son étrange petite fille, Snow. Boy épouse Whitman. Tout semble aller bien, jusqu’au jour où Arturo et Boy mettent au monde leur fille, Bird, un très beau bébé « de couleur ». Ainsi la naissance de Bird met-elle au jour les origines afro-américaines des membres de la famille Whitman, jusqu’alors passées inaperçues à cause de la blancheur de leur peau. Une belle-mère, une jeune Snow, des miroirs, tous les éléments sont dès lors réunis pour une habile réécriture d’un conte bien connu. Avec Boy, Snow, Bird, Helen Oyeyemi braque le projecteur sur les absurdités qui ont accompagné l’histoire raciale aux États-Unis. Avec habileté, elle soulève la question de ce qui nous identifie : couleur, gène, histoire, culture ? Née en 1984, Helen Oyeyemi a grandi à Londres et vit aujourd'hui à Prague. Jeune auteur prodige, elle a écrit son premier livre à dix-neuf ans. Le blanc va aux sorcières, son troisième roman, a paru aux éditions Galaade en septembre 2011. Récompensée par le prix Somerset Maugham et acclamée en France comme à l’étranger par la presse, elle est considérée comme l’une des dix artistes qui comptent au Royaume-Uni, et fait partie de la liste 2013 des meilleurs jeunes espoirs de la littérature britannique établie par la revue Granta. Après Mister Fox (Galaade, 2013), Boy, Snow, Bird est son cinquième roman.

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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours features interconnected stories by Helen Oyeyemi, where characters traverse different narratives. The collection invites readers into enchanting settings like lost libraries and marshlands, showcasing a vivid imagination, baroque beauty, and deep sensuousness.

With distinct originality and grace, and an extraordinary gift for making the fantastic believable, Oyeyemi spins the politics of family and nation into a riveting and unforgettable tale.

Mr Fox, by award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi, is an beautiful and immersive exploration of the labyrinthine world of imagination, storytelling and love. It’s a bright afternoon in 1938 and Mary Foxe is in a confrontational mood. St John Fox, celebrated novelist, hasn’t seen her in six years. He’s unprepared for her afternoon visit, not least because she doesn’t exist. He’s infatuated with her. But he also made her up. “You’re a villain,” she tells him. “A serial killer . . . can you grasp that?” Will Mr Fox meet his muse’s challenge, to stop murdering his heroines and explore something of love? What will his wife Daphne think of this sudden change in her husband? Can there be a happy ending – this time?

Jessamy Harrison is eight years old. She spends hours writing, reading or simply hiding in the dark warmth of the airing cupboard. As the half-and-half child of an English father and a Nigerian mother, Jess just can't shake off the feeling of being alone wherever she goes. This is a novel about spirits, twins and an extraordinary little girl.

A stunning new novel about a young jazz singer from the acclaimed author of The Icarus Girl

Peaces is the story of Otto and Xavier Shin, a couple who embark on a mysterious train journey that takes them far beyond any destination they could have anticipated. As the carriages roll along they discover each is more curious and fascinating than the last, becoming embroiled in this strange train and its intrigue. Who is Ava Kapoor, the sole full-time inhabitant of the train, and what is her relationship to a man named Prem? Are they passengers or prisoners? We discover who orchestrated the journey, hurtling them all into their past for clues

Perdita Lee may appear to be your average British schoolgirl and Harriet Lee a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy, but there are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are. For one thing, they share a gold-painted, seventh-floor flat with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. And then there's the gingerbread they make. Londoners may find themselves able to take or leave it, but it's very popular in Druhástrana, the far-away (and according to Wikipedia, non-existent) land of Harriet Lee's early youth. In fact, the world's truest lover of the Lee family gingerbread is Harriet's charismatic childhood friend, Gretel Kercheval, a figure who seems to have had a hand in everything that has happened to Harriet since they met. Decades later, when teenaged Perdita sets out to find her mother's long-lost friend, it prompts a new telling of Harriet's story. As the book follows the Lees through encounters with jealousy, ambition, family grudges, work, wealth and real estate, gingerbread seems to be the one thing that reliably holds a constant value.

A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, New Statesman, Esquire and the New European Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the great geniuses of twentieth-century literature. What happens when some of the most original literary minds of today take an idea, a mood or a line from his work and use it to spark something new?From a future society who ask their AI servants to construct a giant tower to reach God; to a flat hunt that descends into a comically absurd bureaucratic nightmare; to a population experiencing a wave of unbearable, contagious panic attacks, these ten specially commissioned stories are by turns mind-bending, funny, unsettling and haunting. Inspired by the visionary imagination of a writer working one hundred years ago, they speak powerfully to the strangeness of being alive today.