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The second book in the trilogy which began with the Booker prize-winning The Famished Road.
Ben 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.
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*
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
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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
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