![]() these gorgeously baroque stories are full of humour, tenderness, wisdom and strange delights - Rebecca Abrams * Financial Times *Įnchanting. But she is equally at home in a more lyrical mode, her writing warm and sensuous. Oyeyemi's observations are as sharp as they are humorous. ![]() Oyeyemi glides seamlessly across time, space and genre. If you are seduced by magical realism - particularly the novels of Allende and Marquez - you will savour Oyeyemi's inventive tales. Labyrinth and into a new and exciting literary landscape. the style and peculiar authority of this exceptional young writer will carry you carefully through the Oyeyemi has created a universe that dazzles and wounds * New York Times *Īlluring. ![]() with each story I had the delightful and rare experience of being utterly surprised. ![]() Oyeyemi expertly melds the everyday, the fantastic and the eternal. the pleasurable awareness of a story being told courses through the collection like electricity. Perhaps it's this ability to consume and be consumed that keeps Oyeyemi constantly, and prolifically, at work. Her ability to conceive her stories on such a grand scale is what makes her work so magnetic, sucking the reader into any number of netherworlds. Oyeyemi's imagination is impressive and vast. ![]()
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