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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... shook her head , laughed . Then she said , " How would you like for us to go to Nigeria ? " Jess , still distracted , found herself asking , " Who ? " Sarah laughed . " Us ! You , me and Daddy ! " Jess felt stupid . " Ohhhhh , " she ...
... shook her head , laughed . Then she said , " How would you like for us to go to Nigeria ? " Jess , still distracted , found herself asking , " Who ? " Sarah laughed . " Us ! You , me and Daddy ! " Jess felt stupid . " Ohhhhh , " she ...
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... shook off her father's restrict- ing hands . Sweat was beading on her forehead and her eyelids , and she felt the prickly feeling at the back of her eyelids and that familiar sensation of her eyes almost involuntarily rolling up- wards ...
... shook off her father's restrict- ing hands . Sweat was beading on her forehead and her eyelids , and she felt the prickly feeling at the back of her eyelids and that familiar sensation of her eyes almost involuntarily rolling up- wards ...
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... shook hands with her father . Although he seemed mellower and smaller than the picture that her mother had painted for her over the years , Jess had a sudden and irrational fear that he might start shouting at her . He looked at her ...
... shook hands with her father . Although he seemed mellower and smaller than the picture that her mother had painted for her over the years , Jess had a sudden and irrational fear that he might start shouting at her . He looked at her ...
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... shook her head vigorously , laughing as she did so . Cold ! Here ? She looked to the doorway , over which was hung a cascade of vertically arranged brown - and - cream sandalwood beads . They were still swinging from the impact of her ...
... shook her head vigorously , laughing as she did so . Cold ! Here ? She looked to the doorway , over which was hung a cascade of vertically arranged brown - and - cream sandalwood beads . They were still swinging from the impact of her ...
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... shook them a little , dropping water onto the rug . He made a vague , impatient gesture to the general atmosphere , and Aunty Biola came in from outside , as if on cue , holding out a rough green hand towel . He grunted , dried his ...
... shook them a little , dropping water onto the rug . He made a vague , impatient gesture to the general atmosphere , and Aunty Biola came in from outside , as if on cue , holding out a rough green hand towel . He grunted , dried his ...
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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