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Czech mates
British writer Helen Oyeyemi’s ninth, glorious novel, Parasol against is a maximalist belter, proffering a vision of a hen-do weekend in Prague in dizzyingly delicious prose, featuring a revolving cast of acrobatic characters – each more infuriatingly brilliant than the last – who skip away and stick their fingers up at you if you prod them, because they won’t be pinned to any page and you can bog off if you’re going to interrogate anything so routine as a conventional plotline!
