Butterfly Fish

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With wry humour and a deft touch, Butterfly Fish, the outstanding first novel by a stunning new writer, is a work of elegant and captivating storytelling A dual narrative set in contemporary London and 18th century Benin in Africa, the book traverses the realms of magic realism with luminous style and graceful, effortless prose. New Read [ Butterfly Fish ] Author [ Irenosen Okojie ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I liked the story she told but I don t like her writing style I felt like half of whatever she said was left to interpretation The writing was just everywhere and really hard to understand at times.Butterfly Fish is a blend of various ear s and spans between London and Benin I think the synopsis is immediately eye catching and extremely unique The author has done a fantastic job of weaving modern day London, 1950s London and 19th century Benin The novel opens with Joy in modern day London She is overcoming the death of her mother and it has been a painful process She is helped by neighbourhood eccentric Mrs Harris Who plays the role of lonely old lady, perfectly I just feelButterfly Fish is a blend of various e...I was fascinated by the reviews and couldn t wait to get my hands on this book The beginning got me eveninterested and I soon settled in However, while I found the story set in Nigeria and in Britain interesting as stand alones, I felt weaving them together wasn t smooth I felt it was contrived and this removed some authenticity from it Joy, Queenie, Adesua, Omotola, Mrs Harris I feel all these are strong and interesting characters but none really fully developed Having said that, I was fascinated by the reviews and couldn t wait to get my hands on this book The beginning got me eveninterested and I soon settled in However, while I found the story set in Nigeria and in Britain interesting as stand alones, I felt weaving them together wasn t smooth I felt it was contrived and this removed some authenticity from it Joy, Queenie, Adesua, Omotola, Mrs Harris I feel all these are strong and interesting characters but none really fully developed Having sai...The writing is simply beautiful.Good Reads Says With wry humour and a deft touch, Butterfly Fish, the outstanding first novel by a stunning new writer, is a work of elegant and captivating storytelling A dual narrative set in contemporary London and 18th century Benin in Africa, the book traverses the realms of magic realism with luminous style and graceful, effortless prose.A couple of months back I read Irenosen Okojie s short story collection Speak Gigantular and it blew me away I was obsessed with all her characters and Good Reads Says With wry humour and a deft touch, Butterfly Fish, the outstanding first novel by a stunning new writer, is a work of elegant and captivating storytelling A dual narrative set in contemporary London and 18th century Benin in Africa, the book traverses the realms of magic realism with luminous style and graceful, effortless prose.A couple of months back I read Irenosen Okojie s short story collection Speak Gigantular and it blew me away I was obsessed with all her characters and have wanted to read her debut novel Butterfly Fish ever since then.I have wanted to write this review for a while but have felt stuck because I just didn t know where to start It made me feel a lot of things and I had to put it down at points to take a breather I should probably mention at this point that the book contains triggers for suicide, rape, incest and living with mental illness., basically a ...A strange intimate, open ended yet emotionally satisfying story told in luscious and intriguing prose The style is free wheeling yet controlled, overall, although there are some garden path esque sentences It creates an effect where meaning is constantly squirming away from you, and you reach for it willingly, because the meaning when parsed turns out to be consistently nuanced A joy to read.I liked that there was a distinctive style difference when the chapters alternated time and place A strange intimate, open ended yet emotionally satisfying story told in luscious and intriguing prose The style is free wheeling yet controlled, overall, although there are some garden path esque sentences It creates an effect where meaning is constantly squirming away from you, and you reach for it willingly, because the meaning when parsed turns out to be consistently nuanced A joy to read.I liked that there was a distinctive style difference when the chapters alternated time and place The parts in historical Benin, in particular, have a storytelling feel they seem to be begging to be read aloud Weaving braiding together the narratives of the characters from three generations of the same family works very well with the magical realism genre, because the storytelling feel bleeds through into the recognisably contemporary world of ...One of the worst books I ve ever read The writing was all over the place and I didn t much like the way the storyline kept jumping between time and place and characters It read like it was trying to do what Helen Oyeyemi di...This novel is full.of abstract detailing I love the way OKojie is able to use her words with such precision She truly understands the ways in which words are a form.of currency I enjoyed the shifting between times, places as well as the internal dialogues between different generations A great readI especially enjoyed the chapters of this book about the wives of the Oba But the magical realism sprinkled throughout this novel is really fun, a great treat for the imagination.i feel bad bc i rushed through this book trying to finish it for class but it was really good didnt understand a lot but hte imagery is nice mad support

Butterfly Fish
  • English
  • 10 January 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 346 pages
  • Irenosen Okojie
  • Butterfly Fish