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- 308 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
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This novel is a reimagining of the fairy tale Snow White recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity set in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. 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 has 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 would become, but when the birth of Boy's daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white, elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out . Now Boy, Snow, and Bird must confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold. -- From book jacket
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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
- Riverhead
- Publicado en
- 2014
- Formato
- Tapa dura
- Páginas
- 308
- ISBN10
- 1594631395
- ISBN13
- 9781594631399
- 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
- This novel is a reimagining of the fairy tale Snow White recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity set in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. 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 has 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 would become, but when the birth of Boy's daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white, elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out . Now Boy, Snow, and Bird must confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold. -- From book jacket