The Icarus Girl - Helen Oyeyemi

The Icarus Girl

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Buch | Softcover
336 Seiten
2006 | Export and UK open market ed
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-0-7475-8148-2 (ISBN)
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As the half-and-half child of an English father and a Nigerian mother, Jessamy Harrison just can't shake off the feeling of being alone. When she is taken to Nigeria, she encounters Titiola, a girl her own age. It seems that Jess has found someone who will understand her. This is a novel about spirits, twins and an extraordinary little girl.
Jessamy Harrison is eight years old. Sensitive, whimsical, possessed of a powerful imagination, she spends hours writing, reading or simply hiding in the dark warmth of the airing cupboard. As the half-and-half child of an English father and a Nigerian mother, Jess just can't shake off the feeling of being alone wherever she goes, and other kids are wary of her terrified fits of screaming. When she is taken to her mother's family compound in Nigeria, she encounters Titiola, a ragged little girl her own age. It seems that, at last, Jess has found someone who will understand her. TillyTilly knows secrets both big and small. But as she shows Jess just how easy it is to hurt those around her, Jess begins to realise that she doesn't know who TillyTilly is at all.

Helen Oyeyemi was born in Nigeria in 1984 and moved to London when she was four. She wrote The Icarus Girl while she was still at school, studying for her A levels, and is now a student of Social and Political Sciences at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 111 x 178 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Literatur Zweisprachige Ausgaben Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10 0-7475-8148-7 / 0747581487
ISBN-13 978-0-7475-8148-2 / 9780747581482
Zustand Neuware
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