Revue de presse :
"Oyeyemi's writing is gorgeous and resonant and fresh . . . a shimmering landscape pulsating with life."--Aimee Bender, "The New York Times Book Review
""Oyeyemi has an eye for the gently perverse, the odd detail that turns the ordinary marvelously, frighteningly strange."--"The Boston Globe
""Dazzling."--"The Washington Post
""Cheeky and imaginative."--"The New Yorker
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"Startling, beautiful . . . [Mr. Fox] should not be ignored."--"Chicago Sun Times
"""Mr. Fox" is a wonderfully original novel, full of images and turns of phrase so arresting, so vivid and inventive, its pages almost glow with them. Helen Oyeyemi has given us a work of playful charm and serious narrative pleasure."--Sarah Waters, author of "The Little Stranger
""A sly, tender, and elegant novel, graced with a magical charm that makes this novel's wisdom about love and loss all the more captivating to read. "Mr. Fox" is a novel for those who love stories and who believe in their singular power to alter and heal our fragile souls." --Dinaw Mengestu, author of "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears "and "How to Read the Air"
'Oyeyemi peoples her text with ghosts, dreams and talking animals, burrowing through the everyday to reveal the bizarreness beneath. Yet the core concern is with human suffering. With wit and wisdom, Mr Fox explores how stories can hurt or heal.' --Anita Sethi, The Observer
"Oyeyemi's writing is gorgeous and resonant and fresh . . . a shimmering landscape pulsating with life."--Aimee Bender, "The New York Times Book Review
""Oyeyemi has an eye for the gently perverse, the odd detail that turns the ordinary marvelously, frighteningly strange."--"The Boston Globe
""Dazzling."--"The Washington Post
""Cheeky and imaginative."--"The New Yorker
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"Startling, beautiful . . . [Mr. Fox] should not be ignored."--"Chicago Sun Times
"""Mr. Fox" is a wonderfully original novel, full of images and turns of phrase so arresting, so vivid and inventive, its pages almost glow with them. Helen Oyeyemi has given us a work of playful charm and serious narrative pleasure."--Sarah Waters, author of "The Little Stranger
""A sly, tender, and elegant novel, graced with a magical charm that makes this novel's wisdom about love and loss all the more captivating to read. "Mr. Fox" is a novel for those who love stories and who believe in their singular power to alter and heal our fragile souls." --Dinaw Mengestu, author of "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears "and "How to Read the Air"
'Vivid and heart-warming, the new novel from Nigerian-born and London-based author Helen Oyeyemi, Mr Fox, is certain to draw you in. For the novel s protagonist, St John Fox, it s just another ordinary afternoon in 1938 until his muse, Mary Foxe, wanders in...' --Books of the Month, Pride Magazine
Biographie de l'auteur :
Helen Oyeyemi is the author of four novels, most recently White is for Witching, which won a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award, and Mr Fox.
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