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'A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam.'
ALI SMITH

'A writer we should be delirious to have as a contemporary.'
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The new novel from the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author Helen Oyeyemi.

Oyeyemi treats you to a kaleidoscopic weekend in Prague, as dazzling as it…

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