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Author:
Oyeyemi, Helen, author.
Title:
Parasol against the axe / Helen Oyeyemi.
Publisher:
Riverhead Books,
Copyright Date:
2024
Description:
256 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Bachelorette parties--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Shapeshifting--Fiction.
Young women--Fiction.
Prague (Czech Republic)--Fiction.
Realism in literature.
Fiction: general & literary
Magical realism
Fiction
Novels
Psychological fiction.
Magic realist fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Notes:
"This novel will make the city of Prague the shapeshifting, center-stage character of its story"-- Provided by publisher.
Summary:
For reasons of her own, Hero Tojosoa accepts an invitation she was half expected to decline, and finds herself in Prague on a bachelorette weekend hosted by her estranged friend Sofie. Little does she know she's arrived in a city with a penchant for playing tricks on the unsuspecting. A book Hero has brought with her seems to be warping her mind: the text changes depending on when it's being read and who's doing the reading, revealing startling new stories of fictional Praguers past and present. Uninvited companions appear at bachelorette activities and at city landmarks, offering opinions, humor, and even a taste of treachery. When a third woman from Hero and Sofie's past appears unexpectedly, the tensions between the friends' different accounts of the past reach a new level.
ISBN:
0593192362
9780593192368
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1361694866
LCCN:
2023001865
Locations:
GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)
TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)
CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)
XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)
TFPI826 -- Scott County Library System (Eldridge)
CYPF706 -- Musser Public Library (Muscatine)
WSPF215 -- Spencer Public Library (Spencer)
GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

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