Jennifer Wilson interviews Helen Oyeyemi, the author of “Parasol Against the Axe,” about travel, letters, and Prague as the setting for her latest novel.
You might say Oyeyemi is a collector of stories that follow children, especially girls, into adulthood. Born in Nigeria in 1984 and raised in London, she is best known for spinning classical fairy tales into new forms, not to clumsily revise their politics in the way of the who-asked-for-this Disney reboots but to use make-believe to defamiliarize all that we have been made to believe. Her fourth novel, “Mr.
We’re treated to the main frame story and then to all these ones within, different stories set in Prague over the span of some four hundred years, from Cold War spy thrillers to a medieval B.D.S.M. love triangle. I love hearing it described that way. First time. Oh, I love that story.
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