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A Prayer for the Living by Ben Okri
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Topical and timely, Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri's new collection of short stories blur parallel realities and walk the line between darkness and magic. Is what you see all there is? Look again. Playful, frightening, even shocking- the stories in this collection blur the lines between illusion ...Show more
A Way of Being Free by Ben Okri
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: twelve of his most controversial non-fiction pieces form this collection on the theme of freedom. Ranging from the personal to the analytical, covering subjects such as art, politics, storytelling and creativity, A WAY OF BEING FREE confirms Okri's place as one of the ...Show more
Astonishing the Gods by Ben Okri
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: a deceptively simple modern fable with an ancient origin. A young man finds himself living among invisible beings who have built a utopia based on one principle: that we must repeat or suffer every experience until we experience it properly and fully for the first time ...Show more
Dangerous Love by Ben Okri
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: a classic love story set in a country trying to come to terms with its past. An epic of daily life, DANGEROUS LOVE is a story of doomed love, of star-crossed lovers, separated not by their families, but by the very circumstances of their lives. 'I hope among my nov ...Show more
In Arcadia by Ben Okri
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: a voyage into the enduring myth of Arcadia and the mysterious painting it inspired. A lyrical novel about art and enlightenment that takes the reader from Waterloo Station in London to Paris and a four hundred year old enigma, the painting by Nicolas Poussin known as ' ...Show more
The Age of Magic by Ben Okri
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
'The Age of Magic has begun. Unveil your eyes.' Eight weary film-makers, travelling from Paris to Basel, arrive at a small Swiss hotel on the shores of a luminous lake. Above them, strewn with lights that twinkle in the darkness, looms the towering Rigi mountain. Over the course of three days and two ni ...Show more
The Famished Road by Ben Okri
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The\Famished Road Trilogy Ser.
So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, where there is no suffering, Azaro ...Show more
The Famished Road by Ben Okri; Vanessa Guignery (Introduction by)
$36.99 AUD
Category: Everyman Classics
The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Nearly called back to the land of the dead, he is resurrected. But in their eff ...Show more
The Freedom Artist by Ben Okri
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
In Ben Okri's most significant novel since the Man Booker-winning The Famished Road, a young woman is arrested for speaking four simple words - Who is the Prisoner?This question resonates throughout the novel, and by the end it has become the question every reader has to ask themselves. The answer is im ...Show more
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