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- 320 páginas
- 12 horas de lectura
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In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty—the opposite of the life she’s left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined she’d become, but elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out when the birth of Boy’s daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white. Among them, Boy, Snow, and Bird confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold. Dazzlingly inventive and powerfully moving , Boy, Snow, Bird is an astonishing and enchanting novel. With breathtaking feats of imagination, Helen Oyeyemi confirms her place as one of the most original and dynamic literary voices of our time.
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Boy, Snow, Bird, Helen Oyeyemi
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- Publicado en
- 2014
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- Título
- Boy, Snow, Bird
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Helen Oyeyemi
- Editorial
- Hamish Hamilton
- Publicado en
- 2014
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 320
- ISBN10
- 0143187430
- ISBN13
- 9780143187431
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Libros infantiles, Fantasía, Novelas históricas, Cuentos de hadas, Literatura inglesa, Raza, Racismo, Realismo mágico, Identidad, Simbolismo
- Primera publicación
- 2014
- Título original
- Boy, Snow, Bird
- Calificación
- 3,35 de 5
- Descripción
- In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty—the opposite of the life she’s left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined she’d become, but elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out when the birth of Boy’s daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white. Among them, Boy, Snow, and Bird confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold. Dazzlingly inventive and powerfully moving , Boy, Snow, Bird is an astonishing and enchanting novel. With breathtaking feats of imagination, Helen Oyeyemi confirms her place as one of the most original and dynamic literary voices of our time.