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In a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman called Amalantis is arrested for asking a question. Her question is this: Who is the Prisoner? When Amalantis disappears, her lover Karnak goes looking for her. He searches desperately at first, then with a growing realization. To find Amalantis, he must first understand the meaning of her question. Karnak's search leads him into a terrifying world of lies, oppression and fear at the heart of which...
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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 African tradition, between life and death. Born into the human world, he must experience its joys and tragedies. His spirit companions...
Azaro is a spirit child, an abiku, existing, according to the African tradition, between life and death. Born into the human world, he must experience its joys and tragedies. His spirit companions...
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"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. 0Playful, frightening, even shocking - the stories in this collection blur the lines between illusion and reality. This is a writer at the height of his power, making the reader think, making them laugh, and sometimes making them want to look away while holding their gaze. Stories here are set in London,...
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Other Press LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
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141 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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"From the renowned Booker Prize-winning author, a powerful collection of poems covering topics of the day, such as the refugee crisis, Black Lives Matter protests, and COVID-19. In our times of crisis The mind has its powers This book brings together many of Ben Okri's most acclaimed and politically charged poems. 'Grenfell Tower, June 2017,' published in the Financial Times less than ten days after the fire, was played more than 6 million times on...
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Other Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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94 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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When seven-year-old Mangoshi's mother becomes ill, she goes alone on a quest into the nearby forest, communes with trees to better understand people's effect on nature, and finds the special flower that will help her mom.
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Other Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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xv, 503 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Famished Road, a classic story of doomed love in a country trying to come to terms with its violent past. An epic of daily life, Dangerous Love is one of Ben Okri's most accessible and most disarming novels. Omovo is an office worker and artist who lives at home with his father and his father's second wife. In the communal world of the compound in which he lives, Omovo has both friends and enemies, but...
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Other Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Rewritten edition.
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viii, 497 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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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 son of a king, struggling to find his place in the world, the other the daughter of a craftsman from the secretive tribe of master artists. The prince, entranced, stays hidden in the bushes. The girl,...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1997
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1st ed.
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xix, 315 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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An anthology of short stories by African writers from a dozen countries. The subjects range from war and politics to problems with domestics and African humor. Some stories were written in English, others are translations from Arabic, French and Portuguese. All were written in the latter part of this century.
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Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
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xviii, 876 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Return to the sumptuous, global feast of fantasy fiction with Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's selection of modern masterpieces. From the swinging sixties to the strange, strange seventies, the over-the-top eighties to the gnarly nineties--and beyond, into the twenty-first century--the VanderMeers have found the stories and the writers from around the world that reinvented and revitalized the fantasy genre after World War II. From Jorge Luis Borges to Ursula...
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Tor Books
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 1126 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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An oversized anthology of dark and bizarre tales written throughout the past century includes entries by international best-sellers and award-winners, including Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, and Franz Kafka.
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Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
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A Seven Stories Press First edition.
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xii, 563 pages : illustrations (some in color) ; 28 cm
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English
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"Contemporary artists and illustrators reimagine great works of literature from around the world"--Back cover.
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