An audio book.
Prague. Bags of imagination. Rambling. Gave up after an hour or so.
Other reviews
- Sarah Crown (the story of a parched summer weekend in which two women, Hero Tojosoa and Dorothea Gilmartin, converge on Prague for a hen weekend ... the novel takes on a life of its own, gleefully jettisoning convention, and playing fast and loose with both its characters’, and its readers’, expectations ... brilliant, baffling, beguiling)
- Hannah Kofmann (The frame story of Parasol Against the Axe has a simple articulation: Prague-as-narrator relays the time that our antihero, named Hero, came to the city for the bachelorette party of an old friend, Sofie, on an invitation she was certainly expected to decline. The third member of the old friendship trio, Dorothea, has declined the invitation but nonetheless mysteriously arrives in Prague on revenge business ... there comes a point where, regardless of Oyeyemi’s talent, the liveliness of her prose and imagination, one wants to blurt out, “No more! No more stories!” The perils of endless digression materialize in the fact that, by the end of the novel, the final sewing-up of the primary plot does not mean that much)
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