Peaces

Review 'Oyeyemi's writing is gorgeous and resonant and fresh.' - New York TimesBook Review Product Description SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 'Intoxicating.' New York Magazine 'Oyeyemi is a master.' New York Times 'Welcome back to the magical, maddening milieu of Oyeyemi's singular fiction, in which trapdoors spring open and revelations emerge like Russian nesting dolls.' O, the Oprah Magazine Peaces is the story of Otto and Xavier Shin, a couple who embark on a mysterious train journey that takes them far beyond any destination they could have anticipated. As the carriages roll along they discover each is more curious and fascinating than the last, becoming embroiled in this strange train and its intrigue. Who is Ava Kapoor, the sole full-time inhabitant of the train, and what is her relationship to a man named Prem? Are they passengers or prisoners? We discover who orchestrated the journey, hurtling them all into their past for clues. Review It's hard not to feel like a passenger aboard this book . . . there are few writers who can match Oyeyemi's creative glee. ― Guardian Oyeyemi is a master of leaps of thought and inference, of shifty velocity . . . Here, secrets are revealed, skirmishes ensue, and at the book's end the story lands more Patricia Highsmith than Agatha Christie: a maze of identity and desire that has an ending, but not a solution. -- Alexandra Kleeman ― New York Times The queen of magic realism . . . funny, inventive and alluring. ― i Newspaper Oyeyemi's abilities as a writer have outlived the hype that once overshadowed them . . . It's the unpredictability of this journey that lends the story its emotional life force. ― New Statesman Playful and puzzling . . . bewildering and bewitching. ― Daily Telegraph Intoxicatingly romantic . . . Peaces is elliptical and strange and funny, and despite its Wes Anderson-like setting, it's a very bleak little cautionary tale. It proposes that failing to grasp someone's essential self is pernicious and contagious, that we mistake outlines and portraits for bodies and souls. ― New York Magazine Otherwordly and transcendental. It's unlike anything you'll read this year, in the best way. ― Associated Press, Pick of the Week Like all of Oyeyemi's novels, Peaces goes to places in fiction that feel almost impossible. ― The New Republic Truly, God bless Helen Oyeyemi . . . This is a playful book, but it's also a profoundly unsettling one. ― Vox A madcap existential mystery at the center of which are questions about how we see others and what it means to be seen or not seen. ― The Los Angeles Review of Books Helen Oyeyemi's weird and wonderful new novel unwinds a story that illumines the ways that past experiences continue to impose upon the present, shaping what each of us accepts as reality. ― Christian Science Monitor Books are made to get lost in, but the maze of Helen Oyeyemi's brain seems to grow more complicated by the novel. No complaints here . . . the most surprising, confounding, and oddly insightful couple's trip in recent literary history. ― Entertainment Weekly Welcome back to the magical, maddening milieu of Oyeyemi's singular fiction, in which trapdoors spring open and revelations emerge like Russian nesting dolls. ― O, the Oprah Magazine The premise is whimsical, but the narrative unfolds into darker, more existential layers.Oyeyemi's prose is hypnotic, rendering the story both cinematic and quick to stoke the reader's own imagination. ― Shondaland Disconcerting, captivating, disorienting, yet somehow grounded by universal questions about what makes us human. ― Publishers Weekly Book Description 'A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam.' - Ali Smith The hugely anticipated new novel from the beloved author About the Author Helen Oyeyemi is the author of The Icarus Girl, The Opposite House, White is for Witching (which won the Somerset Maugham Award), Mr Fox, Boy, Snow, Bird, Gingerbread and the short story collection What is