Description
Book SynopsisBen Okri has published 8 novels, including
The Famished Road, as well as 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 the OBE as well as numerous international prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the 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 Nigeria and lives in London.
Trade ReviewTriumphant...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 *
