13697 records matched your query
02825aam a22005658i 4500 001 89966A08DC5011EE9AB7698352ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240307010041 008 230117s2024 nyu e 000 1 eng 010 $a 2023001865 020 $a 0593192362 020 $a 9780593192368 035 $a (OCoLC)1361694866 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d FM0 $d MWD $d OPW $d OCLCO $d RNL $d JPL $d IK2 $d IWB $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR6115.Y49 $b P37 2021 082 00 $a 823/.92 $2 23/eng/20230117 100 1 $a Oyeyemi, Helen, $e author. 245 10 $a Parasol against the axe / $c Helen Oyeyemi. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Riverhead Books, $c [2024] 300 $a 256 pages ; $c 24 cm. 500 $a "This novel will make the city of Prague the shapeshifting, center-stage character of its story"-- Provided by publisher. 520 $a 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. 650 0 $a Bachelorette parties $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Friendship $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Shapeshifting $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Young women $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Prague (Czech Republic) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Realism in literature. 650 0 $a Fiction: general & literary 650 0 $a Magical realism 650 0 $a Fiction 650 0 $a Novels 650 0 $a Psychological fiction. 650 0 $a Magic realist fiction. 650 0 $a Fantasy fiction. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Oyeyemi, Helen. $t Parasol against the axe $d New York : Riverhead Books, [2024] $z 9780593192351 $w (DLC) 2023001866 941 $a 10 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240502013821.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20240502011122.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20240409013016.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20240404010402.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240402012803.0 952 $l TFPI826 $d 20240402011432.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20240402010535.0 952 $l CYPF706 $d 20240402010120.0 952 $l WSPF215 $d 20240319010539.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20240307012321.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=89966A08DC5011EE9AB7698352ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search