The opposite house
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Lyrical and intensely moving, The Opposite House explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young women. Growing up in London, Maja, a singer, always struggled to negotiate her Afro-Cuban background with her physical home. Yemaya is a Santeria emissary who lives in a mysterious somewherehouse with two doors: one opening to London, the other to Lagos. She is troubled by the ease with which her fellow emissaries have disguised themselves behind the personas of saints and by her inability to recognize them. Interweaving these two tales. Helen Oyeyemi, acclaimed author of The Icarus Girl, spins a dazzling tale about faith, identity, and self-discovery.
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display_description | Lyrical and intensely moving, The Opposite House explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young women. Growing up in London, Maja, a singer, always struggled to negotiate her Afro-Cuban background with her physical home. Yemaya is a Santeria emissary who lives in a mysterious somewherehouse with two doors: one opening to London, the other to Lagos. She is troubled by the ease with which her fellow emissaries have disguised themselves behind the personas of saints and by her inability to recognize them. Interweaving these two tales. Helen Oyeyemi, acclaimed author of The Icarus Girl, spins a dazzling tale about faith, identity, and self-discovery. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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publishDate | 2007 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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subject_facet | Cubans -- Great Britain -- Fiction Psychological fiction Santeria -- Fiction Self-perception -- Fiction Young women -- Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | The opposite house | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | The Opposite House The opposite house / Helen Oyeyemi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | The opposite house | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Cubans Fantasy Fiction Literature Santeria Self-perception Young women |