- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (7 May 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747588848
- ISBN-13: 978-0747588849
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.4 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,123,982 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Maureen Freely, The Times
`A beautiful, meandering, cryptic dirge ... The poetry of displacement that plays itself out here is powerfully opaque ... This is about the difficulties of knowing who you are, especially if you are born of several incompatible cultures. It has the ring of truth'
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'I read THE OPPOSITE HOUSE with a rare happiness. The voice in it is so sure, the risk it takes is so good and the intelligence in it is a sheer relief.' Ali Smith Praise for THE ICARUS GIRL: 'A highly auspicious fictional debut.' Sunday Times 'Flickering between viciousness and vulnerability, THE ICARUS GIRL is a compulsive, disrupting read.' Helen Brown, Daily Telegraph 'Deserving of all its praise, this is a masterly first novel.' New York Times
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
After I had enjoyed Helen's first novel 'The Icarus Girl' I found this follow up to be an enormous disappointment. Second novel syndrome methinks.
Format:Paperback
My strongest memory about reading this book (6 years ago) is literally falling asleep during the process. I couldn't tell you anything about the story except I think there was a mother and a daughter. I kept waiting for something to happen or hook me in, but it didn't. It is one of the most tedious books I have read.
Like the other reviewers, I enjoyed the Icarus Girl, so was disappointed as well as bored. However, Oyeyemi is a good writer with (excepting this instance!) very interesting ideas. Although the Icarus Girl remains her most accessible novel, both White is for Witching and Mr. Fox are worth trying if you don't mind a little experimentation with style.
Like the other reviewers, I enjoyed the Icarus Girl, so was disappointed as well as bored. However, Oyeyemi is a good writer with (excepting this instance!) very interesting ideas. Although the Icarus Girl remains her most accessible novel, both White is for Witching and Mr. Fox are worth trying if you don't mind a little experimentation with style.
15 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I thought that The Icarus Girl was a wonderful book, so I was really looking forward to reading another book from such a talented author. However, The Opposite House for me was a huge disappointment. The only positive thing I can find to say about it is that Oyeyemi has clearly a way with words. But the story is boring, the characters are neither interesting nor believable, the use of poetic imagery excessive (while there are some wonderful metaphors and similes in the book, some are downright ridiculous - somebody needs to tell the writer that sometimes less is more). Overall, in my opinion this is a pretentious, boring mess.
I'm an avid reader, and in my whole life there are only 4 books I decided not to finish; this was one, with only 50 pages left I decided I couldn't face spending one more minute reading it.
I'm an avid reader, and in my whole life there are only 4 books I decided not to finish; this was one, with only 50 pages left I decided I couldn't face spending one more minute reading it.
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