Parasol Against the Axe A Novel

Helen Oyeyemi, Dorje Swallow

eAudio - 2024

ONE OF BIBLIOLIFESTYLE’S “BEST LITERARY FICTION OF 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 own, Hero Tojosoa accepts an... more