Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi review a wild ride through Prague

Let's start, then, with what appear to be the facts. Parasol Against the Axe is the story of a parched summer weekend in which two women, Hero Tojosoa and Dorothea Gilmartin, converge on Prague for a hen weekend.

It's set in Prague, with the city functioning as backdrop, cipher and, even, at times, narrator; the main characters slip, slide and transmute, and the bit-part players reappear in different roles and get-ups, like actors in a travelling theatre.

It's at this point that the concept of facts begins to come unstuck.

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