The Opposite House
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:5th May '08
£9.99
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The Icarus Girl was a featured book on the BBC Page Turners programme and was shortlisted for a British Book Award The Icarus Girl received stunning review coverage and has sold nearly 40,000 copies to date For fans of The Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and 26a by Diana Evans
A stunning new novel about a young jazz singer from the acclaimed author of The Icarus GirlMaja was five years old when her black Cuban family emigrated from the Caribbean to London, leaving her with one complete memory: a woman singing - in a voice both eerie and enthralling - at their farewell party. Now, almost twenty years later, Maja herself is a singer, pregnant and haunted by what she calls 'her Cuba'.
'Rich and witty ... it confirms Helen Oyeyemi as a true original' Ali Smith 'Powerful ... wonderfully unsettling ... Oyeyemi's raw style is great' Time Out 'Lyrical and deeply textured ... it repays slow, careful reading, and your copy may, like mine, end up with underlinings and scribbles highlighting juicy phrases' Sunday Telegraph 'Beautiful ... this is about the difficulties of knowing who you are, especially if you are born of several incompatible cultures. It has the ring of truth' The Times
ISBN: 9780747593102
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 16mm
Weight: unknown
272 pages