Summary
Booker-Prize winner Ben Okri blends the African oral storytelling tradition with Magical Realism in this mesmerizing collection of short stories.
Incidents at the Shrine is the first collection of stories by the author of the 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 decaying British inner city, Okri’s lyrical, poetic, and humorous prose re…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099983002 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099983001 |
| Author: | Ben Okri |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 1993 |
| Weight: | 106g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 9mm |
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[A] literary and social visionary
[A] literary and social visionary – Ali Smith
These are beautiful stories but they bite * New Statesman *
Ben Okri…seems to have the two great gifts that are required to make a man a teller of tales: first, faultless artistic economy, which shows in his razor-sharp prose; second, an ability to place himself, chameleon-like in any milieu of society, from the highest to the lowest… Mr. Okri, in short, knows his business * Evening Standard *
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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