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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... walls . The thought made Jess smile as she sat waiting with everyone else , looking at this woman , who stared back at her , her small eyes squinting out from their folds of flesh , the fluorescent light- ing giving her skin an odd ...
... walls . The thought made Jess smile as she sat waiting with everyone else , looking at this woman , who stared back at her , her small eyes squinting out from their folds of flesh , the fluorescent light- ing giving her skin an odd ...
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... wall , leaving Jess and her father drenched with it , but still outside . Jess rubbed her forehead with her free hand and squinted at her mother , who seemed to be transformed by her bargaining , bantering tone , then up at her father ...
... wall , leaving Jess and her father drenched with it , but still outside . Jess rubbed her forehead with her free hand and squinted at her mother , who seemed to be transformed by her bargaining , bantering tone , then up at her father ...
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... wall oppo- site her , the lion - shaped bronze clock , the shapes chasing each other around the neck and sleeves of Aunty Funke's well - fitting boubou . She could faintly hear the sound of her cousins playing out front , the younger ...
... wall oppo- site her , the lion - shaped bronze clock , the shapes chasing each other around the neck and sleeves of Aunty Funke's well - fitting boubou . She could faintly hear the sound of her cousins playing out front , the younger ...
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... walls . Jess was sitting at his feet , gingerly licking at a round , hard ball of nutty adun . He was wearing traditional costume , and she stared at the finely stitched blue - and - silver embroidered waves that ran around the bottoms ...
... walls . Jess was sitting at his feet , gingerly licking at a round , hard ball of nutty adun . He was wearing traditional costume , and she stared at the finely stitched blue - and - silver embroidered waves that ran around the bottoms ...
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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