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Books by Helen Oyeyemi
  | | What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours(Reprint) by Helen Oyeyemi Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2017 by Riverhead Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59463-464-2, ISBN: 1-59463-464-5 "Winner of the PEN Open Book AwardAn NPR Best Book of 2016A Washington Post Notable Fiction PickA PBS NewsHour Best Book of 2016 A Slate Best Book of the Year One of Esquire Magazine’s Best Books of 2016 One of Oprah.com’s 10 Favorite Books of 2016"Transcendent." —The New York Times Book Review"Flawless. . . another masterpiece from an author who seems incapable of writing anything that's less than brilliant." —NPRFrom the award-winning ..." |
 | | White is for Witching(Reprint) by Helen Oyeyemi Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2014 by Riverhead Trade ISBN-13: 978-1-59463-307-2, ISBN: 1-59463-307-X "Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award One of Granta's Best Young British Novelists From the acclaimed author of What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours and Gingerbread There's something strange about the Silver family house in the closed-off town of Dover, England. Grand and cavernous with hidden passages and buried secrets, it's been home to four generations of Silver women--Anna, Jennifer, Lily, and now Miranda, who has lived in the house with ..." |
 | | Mr. Fox(Reprint) by Helen Oyeyemi Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2012 by Riverhead Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59448-618-0, ISBN: 1-59448-618-2 "Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for FictionOne of Granta’s Best Young British NovelistsFrom the prizewinning young writer of What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours and 2019's Gingerbread, a brilliant and inventive story of love, lies, and inspiration.Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding, and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, the celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his nove ..." |
 | | The Icarus Girl(Reprint) by Helen Oyeyemi Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2006 by Anchor Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-7875-2, ISBN: 1-4000-7875-X "In the The Icarus Girl, eight-year-old Jessamy Harrison is the only child of a Nigerian mother and English father--sensitive, intelligent, imaginative and prone to sudden and inexplicable screaming tantrums. She has unusual obsessions for a child--Hamlet and haiku to name two--and finds it hard to make friends. Then, on her first visit to her mother’s family home in Nigeria, Jess meets TillyTilly, a strange child with extraordinary abil ..." |
 | | Boy, Snow, Bird(Reprint) A Novel by Helen Oyeyemi Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2015 by Riverhead Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59463-340-9, ISBN: 1-59463-340-1 "As seen on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, where it was described as “gloriously unsettling… evoking Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Angela Carter, Edgar Allan Poe, Gabriel García Márquez, Chris Abani and even Emily Dickinson,” and already one of the year’s most widely acclaimed novels:“Helen Oyeyemi has fully transformed from a literary prodigy into a powerful, distinctive storyteller…Transfixing and surprising.”—Entertain ..." |
 | | Gingerbread(Reprint) A Novel by Helen Oyeyemi Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2020 by Riverhead Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59463-466-6, ISBN: 1-59463-466-1 "A MARCH INDIE NEXT PICK!The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a bewitching and inventive novel.Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories, beloved novelist Helen Oyeyemi invites readers into a delightful tale of a surprising family legacy, in which the inheritance is a recipe. Perdita Lee may appear to be your average British schoo ..." |
 | | The Opposite House(Reprint) by Helen Oyeyemi Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2008 by Anchor Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-7876-9, ISBN: 1-4000-7876-8 "Lyrical and intensely moving, The Opposite House explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young women. Growing up in London, Maja, a singer, always struggled to negotiate her Afro-Cuban background with her physical home. Yemaya is a Santeria emissary who lives in a mysterious somewherehouse with two doors: one opening to London, the other to Lagos. She is troubled by the ease with which her fe ..." |
 | | Peaces A Novel (Hardback) by Helen Oyeyemi Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2021 by Penguin Putnam Inc, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-593-19233-7, ISBN: 0-593-19233-8 ""When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment - and to get them out of her house." |
 | | Mr. Fox(1st Edition) by Helen Oyeyemi, Helen Oyemi Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2011 by Riverhead Hardcover Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-1-59448-807-8, ISBN: 1-59448-807-X "Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for FictionOne of Granta’s Best Young British NovelistsFrom the prizewinning young writer of What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, a brilliant and inventive story of love, lies, and inspiration.Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding, and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, the celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his ..." |
 | | Gingerbread (Paperback) by Helen Oyeyemi Paperback, 290 Pages, Published 2020 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-4472-9942-4, ISBN: 1-4472-9942-6 "Helen Oyeyemi, the prize-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What is Not Yours is Not Yours, returns with a bewitching and inventive novel about motherhood, family legacy and . . . gingerbread." |
 | | Gingerbread A Novel by Helen Oyeyemi Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2019 by Riverhead Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59463-465-9, ISBN: 1-59463-465-3 ""Exhilarating...A wildly imagined, head-spinning, deeply intelligent novel." - The New York Times Book Review"[W]ildly inventive…[Helen Oyeyemi's] prose is not without its playful bite." –Vogue The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a bewitching and imaginative novel.Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories, beloved novelist Helen ..." |
 | | What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours Nominiert: International Dylan Thomas Prize 2017 by Helen Oyeyemi Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2017 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-4472-9939-4, ISBN: 1-4472-9939-6 "Pure, sensuous enjoyment' The Times The stories collected in What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours 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; st ..." |
 | | MR Fox by Helen Oyeyemi Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2012 by Picador Usa International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-330-53469-7, ISBN: 0-330-53469-6 "'Oyeyemi reveals a twinkling sense of humour ...A delight' Independent It's a bright afternoon in 1938 and Mary Foxe is in a confrontational mood. St John Fox, celebrated novelist, hasn't seen her in six years. He's unprepared for her afternoon visit, not least because she doesn't exist. He's infatuated with her. But he also made her up. "You're a villain," she tells him. "A serial killer ...can you grasp that?" Will Mr Fox meet his mus ..." |
 | | Gingerbread(Large Print) A Novel by Helen Oyeyemi Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2019 by Random House Large Print Large Print ISBN-13: 978-1-984882-89-9, ISBN: 1-984882-89-9 ""Exhilarating...A wildly imagined, head-spinning, deeply intelligent novel." - The New York Times Book Review"[W]ildly inventive…[Helen Oyeyemi's] prose is not without its playful bite." –Vogue The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a bewitching and imaginative novel.Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories, beloved novelist Helen ..." |
 | | What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2016 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-4472-9936-3, ISBN: 1-4472-9936-1 "The stories collected in What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours 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 s ..." |
 | | Boy, Snow, Bird(1st Edition) A Novel by Helen Oyeyemi Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2014 by Riverhead Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-1-59463-139-9, ISBN: 1-59463-139-5 "As seen on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, where it was described as “gloriously unsettling… evoking Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Angela Carter, Edgar Allan Poe, Gabriel García Márquez, Chris Abani and even Emily Dickinson,” and already one of the year’s most widely acclaimed novels:“Helen Oyeyemi has fully transformed from a literary prodigy into a powerful, distinctive storyteller…Transfixing and surprising.”—Entertain ..." |
 | | White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2010 by Picador Usa Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-330-45815-3, ISBN: 0-330-45815-9 "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 fi ..." |
 | | The Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2008 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-9310-2, ISBN: 0-7475-9310-8 "Maja 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." |
 | | The Opposite House(1st Edition) A Novel by Helen Oyeyemi Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2007 by Nan A. Talese ISBN-13: 978-0-385-51384-5, ISBN: 0-385-51384-4 "In a dazzling follow-up to The Icarus Girl, Helen Oyeyemi explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young women and their search for the truth about faith and identity. Maja was five years old when her black Cuban family emigrated from the Caribbean to London. Now, almost twenty years later, Maja is a singer, in love with Aaron, pregnant, and haunted by what she calls “her Cuba.” Growing up in ..." |
 | | THE ICARUS GIRL(1st Edition) [126]**{FIRST EDITION ~ AS NEW ~ UNREAD & UNOPENED}**[126] by Helen Oyeyemi Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2005 by Bloomsbury ISBN-13: 978-0-385-51383-8, ISBN: 0-385-51383-6 "Jess remained standing, eyeing Lidia suspiciously. Dulcie gave her a smug glance , basking in the knowledge that she was bound to be Lidia s favourite. ..." |
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