The Icarus GirlKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 18.12.2007 - 352 Seiten The audacious first novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours • “Oyeyemi brilliantly conjures up the raw emotions and playground banter of childhood. . . . A masterly first novel.”–The New York Times Book Review "Remarkable. . . . As original as it is unsettling, The Icarus Girl runs straight at the heart of what it means to belong."– O, The Oprah Magazine Jessamy “Jess” Harrison, age eight, is the child of an English father and a Nigerian mother. Possessed of an extraordinary imagination, she has a hard time fitting in at school. It is only when she visits Nigeria for the first time that she makes a friend who understands her: a ragged little girl named TillyTilly. But soon TillyTilly’s visits become more disturbing, until Jess realizes she doesn’t actually know who her friend is at all. Drawing on Nigerian mythology, Helen Oyeyemi presents a striking variation on the classic literary theme of doubles — both real and spiritual — in this lyrical and bold debut. |
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... needed to be saying this so that it would be real. It was similar to her waking up and saying to herself, My name is _]essmny. I am eight years old. If she reminded herself that she was in the cupboard, she would know exactly where she ...
... needed to be saying this so that it would be real. It was similar to her waking up and saying to herself, My name is _]essmny. I am eight years old. If she reminded herself that she was in the cupboard, she would know exactly where she ...
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... needed to be saying this so that it would be real . It was similar to her waking up and saying to herself , My name is Jessamy . I am eight years old . If she reminded herself that she was in the cupboard , she would know exactly where ...
... needed to be saying this so that it would be real . It was similar to her waking up and saying to herself , My name is Jessamy . I am eight years old . If she reminded herself that she was in the cupboard , she would know exactly where ...
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... needed . The anti- malaria tablets were disgusting , coating her tongue like thick , sickly chalk . It was the combination of the two white pills and the leering idea of her mother's country that made her begin to struggle and thrash ...
... needed . The anti- malaria tablets were disgusting , coating her tongue like thick , sickly chalk . It was the combination of the two white pills and the leering idea of her mother's country that made her begin to struggle and thrash ...
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... needed to have lights on . " Wuraola , can it be that you are cold ? " Her grandfather sounded amused . Jess shook her head vigorously , laughing as she did so . Cold ! Here ? She looked to the doorway , over which was hung a cascade of ...
... needed to have lights on . " Wuraola , can it be that you are cold ? " Her grandfather sounded amused . Jess shook her head vigorously , laughing as she did so . Cold ! Here ? She looked to the doorway , over which was hung a cascade of ...
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... needed a whole troop of boys to keep the main house going , and to get water for the individual houses . It hasn't been used for years , be- cause your grandfather hasn't needed servants he gets us to do all the running around instead ...
... needed a whole troop of boys to keep the main house going , and to get water for the individual houses . It hasn't been used for years , be- cause your grandfather hasn't needed servants he gets us to do all the running around instead ...
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arms asked Aunt Lucy Aunty Biola Aunty Funke baby breath bumper car cassava chair Colleen McLain coloured cornrows D'you Daddy Daniel dark door Dulcie Dulcie's Ebun eyes face father feel Fern fingers floor friendship bracelet gaze girl grandfather grandfather's hair hand happened hear heard HELEN OYEYEMI Ibadan ibeji Jelly Baby Jess began Jess felt Jess looked Jess sat Jess stared Jess's dad Jess's mum Jessamy Jessamy's Jessy kitchen laughed Lidia lips Little Women McKenzie Miss Patel mother mouth moving mum's Mummy Nigeria nodded pulled pushed remember Sarah scared scream Shivs shook her head shouting shrugged silent Siobhan sitting room smiled someone sorry sound staircase stairs stood stop talking tell things thought Tilly Tilly's TillyTilly told tried Trish trying turned twin upstairs voice waited whispered woman Wuraola Yeah Yoruba