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Author:
Ben Okri
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099218715
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EAN: 9780099218715
Published: 1 Apr 2010
One great thought can change the dreams of the world. One great action, lived out all the way to the sea, can change the history of the world. The adventures of Azaro, the spirit child, continue. From the bestselling author of The Famished Road comes this radiant sequel.
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Triumphant...a joyful and entertaining read
- Guardian
Passages of extraordinary beauty... Okri paints a convincing surrealist picture
- Sunday Times
Reading Okri felt to me like talking to someone who has a secret
- New Statesman
Ben Okri writes beautifully... a triumph of inspiration over the everyday. His prose is dense with pungent metaphor, sometimes whimsical, sometimes bawdy... fraught with wild visions
- The Times
A love story and an account of the conflict between the parties of the rich and the poor... Okri's voice is all his own
- Independent
A prodigious talent
- Time
Ben Okri has published eight novels, including The Famished Road which won the Booker Prize in 1991. He has also published collections of poetry, short stories and essays. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been awarded an OBE as well as numerous international prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Africa, the Paris Review Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the prestigious International Literary Prize Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore. He is a Vice-President of the English Centre of International PEN and was presented with a Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. He was born in Minna, Nigeria and lives in London.
