Author: Helen Oyeyemi. Published by Riverhead Books, New York, NY., 2016. Printed in USA. RARE: Uncorrected Proof Edition. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with a corner crease on the back cover. Clean inside, tight spine.
WHAT IS NOT YOURS IS NOT YOURS, is an enchanting and beautifully crafted first collection of stories, linked by the recurrence of keys. . . Helen Oyeyemis's storytelling is without parallel. -Reviewed by the BBC.com
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. "'Sorry' Doesn't Sweeten Her Tea" involves a "house of locks," where doors can be closed only with a key--with surprising, unobservable developments.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: 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 finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Oyeyemi was named one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists.
ISBN: 9781594634635
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