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By Helen Oyeyemi

Subjects: Short stories, Libraries, English Short stories, Magical Realism, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Locks and keys, Mythology, General, Gardens, Romans, nouvelles, FICTION, Fantasy, Short Stories (single author), Puppets, Short Stories, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Pr6115.y49 a6 2016b, 823/.92, Fiction, short stories (single author), City and town life, Books, Relations entre hommes et femmes, Nouvelles

Description: The stories collected here are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another. The reader is invited into a world of lost libraries and locked gardens, of marshlands where the drowned dead live and a city where all the clocks have stopped; students hone their skills at puppet school, the Homely Wench Society commits a guerrilla book-swap, and lovers exchange books and roses on St Jordi's Day. It is a collection of towering imagination, marked by baroque beauty and a deep sensuousness.