Parasol against the axe
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9780593192368
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| Grouping Title | parasol against the axe |
| Grouping Author | helen oyeyemi |
| Grouping Category | book |
| Grouping Language | English (eng) |
| Last Grouping Update | 2025-07-27 05:12:46AM |
| Last Indexed | 2025-08-21 05:10:04AM |
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"This novel will make the city of Prague the shapeshifting, center-stage character of its story."--
For reasons of her own, Hero Tojosoa accepts an invitation she was half expected to decline, and 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 and who's doing the reading, revealing startling new stories of fictional Praguers past and present. Uninvited companions appear at bachelorette activities and at city landmarks, offering opinions, humor, and even a taste of treachery. When a third woman from Hero and 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 delusion, fact and interpretation, and weighs the risks of attaching too firmly to the stories of a place, or a person, or a shared history. How much is a tale influenced by its reader, or vice versa? And finally, in a battle between friends, is it better to be the parasol or the axe?
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9780593192368
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2024
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Riverhead Books
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Friendship -- Fiction
Magic realist fiction
Prague (Czech Republic) -- Fiction
Shapeshifting -- Fiction
Magic realist fiction
Prague (Czech Republic) -- Fiction
Shapeshifting -- Fiction
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Parasol against the axe
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Parasol against the axe / Helen Oyeyemi
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Parasol against the axe
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Shapeshifting
Shapeshifting
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