Helen Oyeyemi’s latest novel, A New New Me, is set in Prague, the city she has called home since 2013.

Title: A New New Me

Author: Helen Oyeyemi

Genre: Fiction

Publisher: Riverhead Books

Pages: 224

Helen Oyeyemi’s latest novel, A New New Me, takes place in Prague. On one level, this makes prosaic sense: Oyeyemi has called the Eastern European city home since 2013 and set a previous novel, 2024’s Parasol Against the Axe , there.

That book was a shape-shifting matrix of stories-within-stories centring on a volume called Paradoxical Undressing that tells a different story for each reader (and even for the same reader on subsequent encounters). In so doing, it forms a kind of polyvalent imaginative map of the city’s history. The stories embedded in Oyeyemi’s novel prov

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