Helen Oyeyemi
ebook | Pages: 244 pages Rating: 3.59 | 6422 Users | 1044 Reviews
Particularize Of Books White is for Witching
| Title | : | White is for Witching |
| Author | : | Helen Oyeyemi |
| Book Format | : | ebook |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 244 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 2009 by Picador USA |
| Categories | : | Horror. Fiction. Fantasy. Gothic. Magical Realism. Paranormal |
Commentary In Favor Of Books White is for Witching
In a vast, mysterious house on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the hole punched into its heart. Lily is gone and her twins, Miranda and Eliot, and her husband, the gentle Luc, mourn her absence with unspoken intensity. All is not well with the house, either, which creaks and grumbles and malignly confuses visitors in its mazy rooms, forcing winter apples in the garden when the branches should be bare. Generations of women inhabit its walls. And Miranda, with her new appetite for chalk and her keen sense for spirits, is more attuned to them than she is to her brother and father. She is leaving them slowly -Slipping away from them -
And when one dark night she vanishes entirely, the survivors are left to tell her story.
"Miri I conjure you "
This is a spine-tingling tale that has Gothic roots but an utterly modern sensibility. Told by a quartet of crystalline voices, it is electrifying in its expression of myth and memory, loss and magic, fear and love.
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| Original Title: | White is for Witching |
| ISBN: | 0330458140 (ISBN13: 9780330458146) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Somerset Maugham Award (2010), Shirley Jackson Award Nominee for Novel (Finalist) (2009), James Tiptree Jr. Award Nominee for Longlist (2010) |
Rating Of Books White is for Witching
Ratings: 3.59 From 6422 Users | 1044 ReviewsNotice Of Books White is for Witching
Helen Oyeyemi has such a way with words. This is the second book of hers that I've read the first being Mr. Fox, which I loved and it didn't disappoint! I'm often enchanted by books where initially disparate elements come together in brilliant, poetic, masterful ways, and White is For Witching is no doubt one of those.Miranda Silver has gone missing, and everyone has their own take on the strange events that led to her disappearance. Who are you going to believe? The boy, Eliot, who sees theWhite is for Witching is a strange but rather beautiful book. It's a story about lots of things - the fragility of family relationships, the bond between twins, sexuality, racial prejudice - but at the same time it isn't really about any of these. The unfinished themes are held together by Oyeyemi's prose, which is fluid, lyrical and reads almost like poetry at some points. The narrative is unconventional and initially hard to follow, as it switches between different viewpoints without
i read this. i'm not sure how to review it. like the other things i have read by her, she shows a great flair for foreboding and atmosphere but the end is a void. i'm not sure what this book is. it's not a traditional story, it's kind of fairy-tale-like, but even that... there are characters who are involved heavily, and then they are absent from the narrative, never to return. i guess in that way, it is like the real-life situation of never knowing when the last time you will see someone will
Bewildered. Confused. Empty. I was never able to find the rhythm of this. The groove. There were times I did, but I lost it. It was hazy. It slipped away. Sometimes I lost who the narrator was, I had to go back to find him/her/it. Sometimes I lost the time we were in. Maybe it has to to with the stopped watch. Maybe the house was playing tricks on me. Again I had to go back to find it, the time. All this going back was made easy by the delicious sentences. But in the end even those sentences did
A lyrical book about a house that keeps its women captive. Miri has pica: the name for an urge to eat things that aren't food. Throughout the book we follow her downward spiral, through deep illness to attempted revelry at university, alongside her twin brother and widow father.It's an interesting book. At first, the stilted chapters and flow of chapters had me a little hooked, but by the end they become boring and a little tedious to work out whom is narrating each little bit. Perhaps the who
I thought about this book for a long time last night. After I finished it I turned the light of to go to sleep, and I couldn't turn my brain off. Honestly, this book has sort of been like a dark cloud or shadow following me since I started it. It's weighty, almost claustrophobic, and I felt almost as if I had a literal weight pressing down on me whenever I was reading it.White is for Witching is not for everyone. If you are looking for straight-up horror, this isn't it. But it is a deeply
In White is for Witching the classic Gothic story of a haunted house is given new life, but keeps being just as unsettling and dark as the older ones.Despite what the title suggests, this book doesnt contain any witches. Its the eerie and intriguing tale of a young teenage girl named Miranda Miri Silver who moves with her twin brother Elliot and her father into a new house after the death of her mother. That old house in Dover has been in the Silver family for generations, and while her brother
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