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Krótka historia Stowarzyszenia Nieurodziwych Dziewuch
500 pages
A labyrinthine puzzle-box of modern fairy tales where secrets are locked away and characters slip seamlessly between each other's dreams.
What it feels like
Reading this collection feels like wandering through a beautifully strange museum after hours, where every door requires a different, impossible key. The pace is deliberately meandering, inviting you to get lost in its exquisitely winding prose and fairy-tale logic. It is a deeply atmospheric experience, drenched in a mood that is at once dreamlike, uncanny, and enchanting. The stories bleed into one another, with characters slipping through the margins of one tale only to surface in the next, creating a labyrinthine puzzle-box of hidden desires and fluid identities. It will thoroughly delight readers who crave lyrical, baroque storytelling and who love the surreal, boundary-blurring magic of modern folktales.
- Mood
- dreamlike
- labyrinthine
- uncanny
- enchanting
- Tone
- enigmatic
- playful
- whimsical
- surreal
- baroque
- Pace
- meandering
- Themes
- the weight of secrets · fluid identities · hidden desires · interconnected destinies · boundaries and thresholds
- The writing
- Exquisitely winding and lyrical, the prose operates on fairy-tale logic with a deeply sensuous, baroque beauty.
- The arc
- Begins with curious disorientation, winds through enchanting and uncanny labyrinths, and settles into a lingering, bittersweet wonder.
- Who it's for
- Lovers of magical realism and modern fairy tales who prefer to get lost in a beautifully crafted, surreal puzzle-box rather than follow a straight path.
Content notes
- drowning
- mild violence
- sexual content
About the book
The stories collected here are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another. The reader is invited into a world of lost libraries and locked gardens, of marshlands where the drowned dead live and a city where all the clocks have stopped; students hone their skills at puppet school, the Homely Wench Society commits a guerrilla book-swap, and lovers exchange books and roses on St Jordi's Day. It is a collection of towering imagination, marked by baroque beauty and a deep sensuousness.
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