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What is Parasol Against the Axe: A Novel about?

The prize-winning, bestselling author of Peaces & Gingerbread returns with a novel about competitive friendship, the elastic boundaries of storytelling, & the meddling influence of a city called PragueIn Helen Oyeyemi’s joyous new novel, the Czech capital is a living thing—one that can let you in or spit you out. For reasons of her own, Hero Tojosoa accepts an invitation she was half expected to decline, & finds herself in Prague on a bachelorette weekend hosted by her estranged friend Sofie. Little does she know she’s arrived in a city with a penchant for playing tricks on the unsuspecting. A book Hero has brought with her seems to be warping her mind: the text changes depending on when it’s being read & who’s doing the reading, revealing startling new stories of fictional Praguers past & present. Uninvited companions appear at bachelorette activities & at city landmarks, offering opinions, humor, & even a taste of treachery. When a third woman from Hero & Sofie’s past appears unexpectedly, the tensions between the friends’ different accounts of the past reach a new level. An adventurous, kaleidoscopic novel, Parasol Against the Axe considers the lines between illusion and delusio

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Author

Helen Oyeyemi

Publisher

Penguin Random House Distribution

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9780593192368

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities