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This novel is a reimagining of the fairy tale Snow White recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity set in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty, the opposite of the life she has left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined she would become, but when the birth of Boy's daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white, elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out . Now Boy, Snow, and Bird must confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold. -- From book jacket
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Boy, Snow, Bird, Helen Oyeyemi
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2014
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- Titel
- Boy, Snow, Bird
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Helen Oyeyemi
- Verlag
- Riverhead
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2014
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 308
- ISBN10
- 1594631395
- ISBN13
- 9781594631399
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Kinderbücher, Fantasy, Historische Romane, Märchen, Englische Literatur, Rasse, Rassismus, Magischer Realismus, Identität, Symbolik
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2014
- Originaltitel
- Boy, Snow, Bird
- Bewertung
- 3,35 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- This novel is a reimagining of the fairy tale Snow White recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity set in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty, the opposite of the life she has left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined she would become, but when the birth of Boy's daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white, elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out . Now Boy, Snow, and Bird must confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold. -- From book jacket