White is for Witching

Zusatztext Helen Oyeyemi was a literary prodigy. Now! she is ready to make the transition from wunderkind to established author. Remarkable. Informationen zum Autor Helen Oyeyemi was born in Nigeria in 1984 and moved to London when she was four. She is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The Icarus Girl , which she wrote while she was still at school, The Opposite House , Boy, Snow, Bird and the short story collection What is Not Yours is Not Yours. Klappentext High on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the loss of Lily, mother of twins Eliot and Miranda, and beloved wife of Luc. Miranda misses her with particular intensity. Their mazy, capricious house belonged to her mother's ancestors, and to Miranda, newly attuned to spirits, newly hungry for chalk, it seems they have never left. Forcing apples to grow in winter, revealing and concealing secret floors, the house is fiercely possessive of young Miranda. Joining voices with her brother and her best friend Ore, it tells her story: haunting in every sense, White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi is a spine-tingling tribute to the power of magic, myth and memory. Miri I conjure you . . .Angela Carter meets Edgar Allen Poe in this mesmerizing spine-tingler from the talented author of The Icarus Girl. Zusammenfassung Angela Carter meets Edgar Allen Poe in this mesmerizing spine-tingler from the talented author of The Icarus Girl.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Oyeyemi
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.04.2010
• EAN: 9780330458153
• ISBN: 978-0-330-45815-3
• No. of pages: 244
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 197 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Kent, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Ghost, FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, Horror & ghost stories, Myth & legend told as fiction, Horror and supernatural fiction, Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales