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portada Gingerbread
Type
Physical Book
Year
2020
Language
English
Pages
288
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
20.1x13x2 cm
Weight
0.25 kg.
ISBN13
9781594634666

Gingerbread

Helen Oyeyemi (Author) · Riverhead Books · Paperback

Gingerbread - Helen Oyeyemi

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Synopsis "Gingerbread "

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, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, and Peaces returns with a bewitching and imaginative 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 schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy; but there are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are. For one thing, they share a gold-painted, seventh-floor walk-up apartment with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. And then there's the gingerbread they make. Londoners may find themselves able to take or leave it, but it's very popular in Druhástrana, the far-away (or, according to many sources, non-existent) land of Harriet Lee's early youth. The world's truest lover of the Lee family gingerbread, however, is Harriet's charismatic childhood friend Gretel Kercheval --a figure who seems to have had a hand in everything (good or bad) that has happened to Harriet since they met. Decades later, when teenaged Perdita sets out to find her mother's long-lost friend, it prompts a new telling of Harriet's story. As the book follows the Lees through encounters with jealousy, ambition, family grudges, work, wealth, and real estate, gingerbread seems to be the one thing that reliably holds a constant value. Endlessly surprising and satisfying, written with Helen Oyeyemi's inimitable style and imagination, it is a true feast for the reader.
Helen Oyeyemi
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Helen Oyeyemi es una escritora británica de origen nigeriano. Nació el 10 de diciembre de 1984 en Ibadan, Nigeria. Cuando tenía cuatro años, se mudó con su familia a Londres, Inglaterra, donde creció. Desde muy joven mostró interés por la escritura y comenzó a crear sus propias historias.

Mientras estaba en la escuela, Oyeyemi escribió su primera novela, The Icarus Girl, que fue publicada en 2005. Más tarde estudió Ciencias Sociales y Políticas en la Universidad de Cambridge. Durante sus años de estudiante también escribió varias obras de teatro.

A lo largo de su carrera, Helen Oyeyemi ha publicado diferentes novelas y libros de cuentos. Entre sus obras más conocidas se encuentran The Opposite House, White Is for Witching, Mr. Fox, Boy, Snow, Bird, Gingerbread y Peaces. También escribió el libro de cuentos What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, que recibió el PEN Open Book Award en 2016.

Sus obras se caracterizan por mezclar situaciones de la vida cotidiana con elementos de fantasía, misterio, mitos y cuentos tradicionales. Gracias a su forma original de escribir, ha recibido varios reconocimientos y se ha convertido en una autora importante de la literatura contemporánea.

Actualmente, Helen Oyeyemi vive en Praga, República Checa, y continúa trabajando como escritora.
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