The Opposite House

Praise for The Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi

‘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 a sheer relief’ Ali Smith

‘Beautiful. . The poetry of displacement that plays itself out here is powerfully opaque. . It has the ring of truth’ The Times

‘The Opposite House is original, memorable and written in a strong voice’ Scotsman

‘A powerful tale of migration, memory and dislocation’ Red Magazine Book of the Month

‘Her gift for language, her emotional intelligence and most of all her ability to pull you right into the souls of her characters don’t allow the reader to step away. . Here is language that does justice to the suffering of gods’ Kamila Shamsie, Guardian

‘Lyrical and deeply textured. . It repays slow, careful reading, and your copy may, like mine, end up with underlinings and scribbles highlighting juicy phrases’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Oyeyemi has a lovely feel for the sweet, sticky intimacy of family and partnership’ Observer

‘Oyeyemi delicately evokes the endless debate between religious myth and intellectual fact that shapes Maja’s family life’ TLS

‘Oyeyemi deals in wonderfully unsettling images. . Her raw style is great’ Time Out

‘A poetic, meandering tale about cultural displacement’ Financial Times Summer Books