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(0)Ben Okri
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
From Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: a deceptively simple modern fable with an ancient origin. A young man finds himself living among invisible beings who have built a utopia based on one principle: that we must repeat or suffer every experience until we experience it properly and fully for the first time. 'The hero of this novel finds what he did not seek, and goes where he did not intend to go. As I did in writing it.' BEN OKRI.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Is what you see all there is? Look again. Playful, frightening, even shocking - the stories in this collection blur the lines between illusion and reality. This is a writer at the height of his power, making the reader think, making them laugh, and sometimes making them want to look away while holding their gaze. Stories here are set in London, in Byzantium, in the ghetto, in the Andes, in a printer's shop in Spain. The characters include a murderer,...
7) Wild
Author
Publisher
Rider
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Ben Okri is a prolific Booker-Prize winning novelist and essayist, but has published only two collections of poetry. Okri's new volume, 'Wild', is very much suited to this fragile era of change that we are living through today. A period when the delicacy of nature around us is commensurate with the forms and images inside us.
Author
Publisher
Rider
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
At one level, 'Starbook' tells the delicate story of a prince and a maiden who are both tested by trials in a mythical land where art, initiation and dynamic stillness are supremely important. At another level, this novel opens up the nature of reality, where the essence of life is revealed, and the source of enchantment can be ours.