Summary
This collection of short stories by Ben Okri brings to life the violence, frustration, humour, and beauty of everyday life in Nigeria.
To enter the world of Ben Okri’s stories is to surrender to a new reality. Set in the chaotic streets of Lagos and the jungle heart of Nigeria, all the laws of cause and effect, fact and fiction, are suspended. It is a world where the lives of the powerless veer terrifyingly close to nightmare.
In rich, lyrical, almost hallucinatory prose, Ben …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099283881 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099283883 |
| Author: | Ben Okri |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 22 October 1999 |
| Weight: | 149g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 13mm |
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Critics Review
Another piercing collection of short stories… Masterful
Another piercing collection of short stories… Masterful * Time Out *
There are many novelists who write as well as Ben Okri, many who share his gift for recreating the texture of everyday life, many who can cut through the surface to expose, as he does, the myths of our elders and betters use to keep us in our place. There are very few novelists who can do all three. The fact that Ben Okri has done so in short stories, without ever losing his balance, his humour or his edge, makes his accomplishment all the more exceptional * Observer *
In a few brief sentences Ben Okri captures the arrogance and faceless indifference of the military forces which patrol the margins of these stories * Independent *
Stamped with the ease of a truly original imagination – Wole Soyinka
About The Author
Ben Okri
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.
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