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White Is for Witching

door Helen Oyeyemi

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Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award One of Granta 's Best Young British Novelists From the acclaimed author of Boy, Snow, Bird There's something strange about the Silver family house in the closed-off town of Dover, England. Grand and cavernous with hidden passages and buried secrets, it's been home to four generations of Silver women--Anna, Jennifer, Lily, and now Miranda, who has lived in the house with her twin brother, Eliot, ever since their father converted it to a bed-and-breakfast. The Silver women have always had a strong connection, a pull over one another that reaches across time and space, and when Lily, Miranda's mother, passes away suddenly while on a trip abroad, Miranda begins suffering strange ailments. An eating disorder starves her. She begins hearing voices. When she brings a friend home, Dover's hostility toward outsiders physically manifests within the four walls of the Silver house, and the lives of everyone inside are irrevocably changed. At once an unforgettable mystery and a meditation on race, nationality, and family legacies, White is for Witching is a boldly original, terrifying, and elegant novel by a prodigious talent.… (meer)
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Een klein gezin probeert de dood van de moeder te verwerken ( )
  huizenga | Jun 2, 2011 |
Some have compared Helen Oyeyemi to Henry James, and at first glance this seems a strange connection. White is for Witching is an unconventional novel, less a structured story than an extended mood piece, a rumination on horror as personified in a disintegrating personality. Even so, White is for Witching captures some of the characteristic Jamesian ambiguity, the openness to multiple interpretations that has kept literary scholars debating, more than a century after it was written, whether The Turn of the Screw is really a ghost story, or just a metaphorical haunting that reminds us of the dark corners of everyday existence.... Oyeyemi earns my praise for infusing even the most outlandish details in this story with a plausible psychological resonance. I may walk away from this book wondering whether it isn’t more a hallucination than a structured narrative. But I could imagine reading accounts of just this sort in collection of psychiatric case studies. And this is more than just the chronicle of a medical condition. It is a legit horror novel. After all, what could be scarier than a ghost story where you can’t escape…because you are the ghost?
toegevoegd door Lemeritus | bewerkConceptual Fiction, Ted Gioia (Aug 14, 2016)
 
Helen Oyeyemi’s eerie third novel features a young woman who has a strange eating disorder and lives with her twin brother and widowed father in a haunted house across the street from a cemetery full of unmarked graves. On the surface, this setup might appear best suited to the young adult fiction market, but Oyeyemi (who was born in Nigeria and educated in England) knows that ghost stories aren’t just for kids. And “White Is for Witching” turns out to be a delightfully unconventional coming-of-age story.
toegevoegd door jlelliott | bewerkThe New York Times, Andrew Ervin (Sep 8, 2009)
 
White Is for Witching is written so elliptically that it can be hard to follow. It opens with four pages of poetic, disjointed writing that makes almost no sense until you have finished the book - which would be fine if the remaining 241 pages swept you off your feet, but the whole novel is sadly unengaging.... This is a ghost story without much of a ghost, or a story. And, like a spectre with no one to haunt, it seems destined to fade soundlessly away.
toegevoegd door Lemeritus | bewerkThe Guardian (UK), Cassie O'Grady (Jun 19, 2009)
 
The book is structured around multiple voices—including that of the house itself—that bleed into one another. Appealing from page one, the story, like the house, becomes extremely foreboding, as the house is “storing its collapse” and “can only be as good as” those who inhabit it. The house’s protective, selfish voice carries a child’s vision of loss: in the absence of a mother, feelings of anger, betrayal and bodily desire replace the sensation of connection. Unconventional, intoxicating and deeply disquieting.
toegevoegd door Lemeritus | bewerkPublisher's Weekly (Feb 16, 2009)
 

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Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award One of Granta 's Best Young British Novelists From the acclaimed author of Boy, Snow, Bird There's something strange about the Silver family house in the closed-off town of Dover, England. Grand and cavernous with hidden passages and buried secrets, it's been home to four generations of Silver women--Anna, Jennifer, Lily, and now Miranda, who has lived in the house with her twin brother, Eliot, ever since their father converted it to a bed-and-breakfast. The Silver women have always had a strong connection, a pull over one another that reaches across time and space, and when Lily, Miranda's mother, passes away suddenly while on a trip abroad, Miranda begins suffering strange ailments. An eating disorder starves her. She begins hearing voices. When she brings a friend home, Dover's hostility toward outsiders physically manifests within the four walls of the Silver house, and the lives of everyone inside are irrevocably changed. At once an unforgettable mystery and a meditation on race, nationality, and family legacies, White is for Witching is a boldly original, terrifying, and elegant novel by a prodigious talent.

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