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Astonishing the Gods by Ben Okri

The Guardian - Jan 25, 2012
Astonishing the Gods is a novel by Booker Award Winning author Ben Okri. His dream-like prose transports the reader on a journey through an enchanted island, where philosophy is explored in the narrator's encounters and experiences in a quest to ...

Jaipur literary fest: An interview with Ben Okri

Daily Bhaskar - Jan 21, 2012
Jaipur: The otherwise mild-mannered Nigerian writer Ben Okri gets agitated to the point of stuttering while speaking about why Salman Rushdie will not attend the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival. In an interview, the winner of the 1991 Booker prize talks ...

Got strange sensation of being home in India: Ben Okri

Times of India - Jan 19, 2012
Had Salman Rushdie not found himself in the eye of a storm yet again, Nigerian author Ben Okri would not have been making so unobtrusive an entry to the Jaipur Literary Festival. The 53-yearold London-based writer, who won the Booker for literature in ...

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The Famished Road

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In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri's Famished Road has become a classic. Like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children or Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, it combines brilliant narrative technique with a fresh vision to create an essential work of world literature.

The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death. The life he foresees for himself and the tale he tells is full of sadness and tragedy, but inexplicably he is born with a smile on his face.
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The Famished Road by Ben Okri | Summary & Study Guide

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The Famished Road Study Guide consists of approx. 50 pages of summaries and analysis on The Famished Road by Ben Okri.

This study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Characters, Objects/Places, Themes, Style, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.

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A Time for New Dreams. by Ben Okri

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Booker-winning novelist and one of Britain's foremost poets, Ben Okri is a passionate advocate of the written word. In "A Time for New Dreams", he breaks new ground in an unusual collection of linked essays, which address such diverse themes as childhood, self-censorship, the role of beauty, the importance of education and the real significance of the recent economic meltdown. Proving that 'true literature tears up the script' of how we see ourselves, "A Time for New Dreams" is provocative and thought-provoking.
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Astonishing the Gods Hb

by: Ben Okri
A modern fable with a magical quality by the Booker prize-winning writer.
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