Ben Okri

Prayer for the Living

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackstone Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 183mm x 132mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781617758638
• ISBN-10: 1617758639
• Artikelnr.: 58460885

Autorenporträt

Ben Okri was born in Minna, Nigeria. His childhood was divided between Nigeria, where he saw firsthand the consequences of war, and London. He won the Booker Prize in 1991 for The Famished Road, and his novel Astonishing the Gods was selected as one of the BBC's "100 Novels That Shaped Our World." His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He also writes plays and screenplays. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a vice president of English PEN, and has been awarded the OBE as well as numerous international prizes and honorary doctorates. His latest novel, The Freedom Artist, was published by Akashic Books.

Inhaltsangabe

Boko Haram (1)
Prayer for the Living
An Inca Elegy
A Sinister Perfection
Ancient Ties of Karma
Dreaming of Byzantium
The Canopy
In the Ghetto
Hail
Mysteries
Tulips
The Lie
Boko Haram (2)
The Master's Mirror
The Standeruppers
Alternative Realities Are True
The Story in the Next Room
The Overtaker
Raft
The Secret History of a Door
The Offering
Don Ki-Otah and the Ambiguity of Reading
Boko Haram (3)
A Street

Rezensionen

'Okri is always good company and these 20-odd tales showcase his lucid prose and freewheeling imagination' Mail on Sunday