Ben Okri

• 1964
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Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. But this is Kenya, and the times are against them: in the forests, the Mau Mau is waging war ...

• 1989
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• Jul-1989
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This collection of short stories is set in Nigeria and reflects the mad, exotic and often dangerous chaos which reigns there. They include jumbled up voodoo stories, stories of shanty towns and of men from the villages seeking their fortunes in the s...

• Sep-1993
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize: “Okri shares with García Márquez a vision of the world as one of infinite possibility. . . . A masterpiece” (The Boston Sunday Globe). Azaro is a spirit child, an abiku, existing, according to the Afric...

• Sep-1993
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Set in an African village, this follow-up to the Man Booker Prize�"winning novel is “sometimes whimsical, sometimes bawdy . . . Fraught with wild visions” (The Times).   “All is not well in the African village where Azaro l...

• Jul-2009
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A potent combination of political, metaphorical, and mythical storytelling” from the prizewinning author of The Freedom Artist (The Scotsman).“Who can be certain where the end begins?” said Dad, shortly before he was arrested for the murder of ...

• Jun-2012
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Set in Nigeria, a country failing to come to terms with the atrocity of a recent civil war and the echo of that violence, "Dangerous Love" tells the story of a young man, Omovo, an office-worker and artist, who lives at home with his father and his f...

• Jul-2015
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One of the BBC’s “100 Novels That Shaped Our World,” a much-needed fable that could change how we see ourselves and our reality, from the renowned Booker Prize�"winning author.A young man finds himself among invisible beings who have built a w...

• Jul-2015
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A group of angry and ill-assorted people accept an invitation to make a journey to discover the real Arcadia

Inspired by a painting and financed by a mysterious benefactor, a group sets off to discover the real Arcadia, or what rema...

• Sep-2015
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In this enchanting novel from the Booker Prize�"winning author, a group of world-weary travelers discover the meaning of life in a mysterious Swiss mountain village.The Age of Magic has begun. Unveil your eyes.Eight weary filmmakers, traveling from ...

• Nov-2017
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A lamp found in the attic of a London house inspires a sequence of images and writings. Meditations or stories, these pieces and pictures explore themes including modern times, lost worlds, revolutions, and love....

• May-2019
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Ben Okri brings both poetry and story together, paring writing and image down to their essentials. The significant title story "The Comic Destiny" forms the centerpiece of this collection, complemented by 13 magical stokus. In ...

• Oct-2019
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Topical and timely, Booker Prize�"winning author Ben Okri’s new collection of short stories blurs parallel realities and walks the line between darkness and magic.A Library Journal Best Book of 2021“No matter how different each story i...

• Feb-2020
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An NPR Best Book of 2020: “Okri’s tale is especially resonant in our current post-truth environment.” -- Booklist (starred review)In a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman called Amalantis is arrested for asking a question. Her ques...

• Nov-2021
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The Guardian: Best Children's and YA Book of the Year  An environmental fairytale that speaks eloquently to the most pressing issues of our times, from the Booker Prize�"winning author of The Famished Road.Mangoshi lives with her mom and dad in...

• Nov-2022
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The sequel to the critically acclaimed Reverse Engineering. Reverse Engineering II brings together contemporary classic stories with their authors’ discussions of how they were written. An essential book for everyone interested in how fiction w...

• Feb-2023
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The Booker Prize�"winning author, a child of the Nigerian Civil War, reinvents through the story of the Atlantic slave trade the beautiful soul and resilient culture of his country.A boy and a girl meet by chance on a riverbank in Africa. One is the...

• Jun-2023
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A Best Book of 2023 by The New YorkerIn this poignant, timely collection, the renowned Booker Prize�"winning author evokes the magic of nature and the urgency of protecting our environment.Twenty thousand years after a catastrophe wiped out the huma...

• Sep-2023
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Incidents at the Shrine is the first collection of stories by the author of 1991 Booker Prize-winning novel, The Famished Road. Whether the subject is a child's eye view of the Nigerian Civil War, Lagos and the spirit world or dispossession in a deca...