What is not yours is not yours

Description:

The stories collected here 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 school, the Homely Wench Society commits a guerrilla book-swap, and lovers exchange books and roses on St Jordi's Day. It is a collection of towering imagination, marked by baroque beauty and a deep sensuousness.

subjects: Short stories,  Fiction, short stories (single author),  New York Times reviewed,  Locks and keys,  Fiction,  Man-woman relationships,  Libraries,  Gardens,  City and town life,  Puppets,  Books,  Relations entre hommes et femmes,  Romans, nouvelles,  FICTION,  Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology,  Magical Realism,  Short Stories (single author),  English Short stories,  Nouvelles,  General,  Fantasy,  Mythology,  Short Stories