Parasol Against the Axe A Novel

Helen Oyeyemi

eBook - 2024

"A shape-shifting novel about the power of stories...Helen Oyeyemi is a literary pied piper — her voice is the kind that readers gamely follow into the most bewildering and unnerving of situations." – The New York Times“A metatextual masterpiece.” —Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW“Oyeyemi writes here as an heir to Calvino or Borges...A dizzying, dazzling romp.” —Kirkus Reviews The prize-winning, bestselling author of Peaces and Gingerbread returns with a novel about competitive friendship, the elastic boundaries of storytelling, and the meddling influence of a city called PragueIn Helen Oyeyemi’s joyous new novel, the Czech capital is a living thing—one that can let you in or spit you out.For reasons of her ow...n, Hero Tojosoa accepts an invitation she was half expected to decline, and finds herself in Prague on a bachelorette... more