| Starbook's language is so intensely lyrical it reads like a shaman's incantation
Financial Times
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Starbook tells the tale of a prince and a maiden in a mythical land where a golden age is ending. Their fragile story considers the important questions we all face, exploring creativity, wisdom, suffering and transcendence in a time when imagination still ruled the world. A magnificent achievement and a modern-day parable, Starbook offers a vision of life far greater than ourselves.
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| Starbook is wondrous...[Okri] has a diction which glides superbly. His ear is pitch perfect
Scotsman
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| A quite beautiful elegy...there is something delightful in Okri's cosmic world-view
Big Issue
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| A work of magic
Sunday Times
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| Booker prize-winning Ben Okri's first novel in five years stands in the grand tradition of myth-making exemplified in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Midnight's Children, although the book has a vision and voice uniquely its own
Observer
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| It is with epic grace that Okri constructs. [He] passionately considers the nuts and bolts of the creative process...how observing art might do so much as to effect change in a human being
Independent on Sunday
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Rider • Modern fiction • Previous
ISBN: 1846040817
Publication date: 03/07/2008 • 432 pages • B (Ebury) • EAN: 9781846040818 |
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