Name: Prayer for the Living, Hardcover/Ben Okri
Brand: Akashic Books
Price: 132.99 RON
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Topical and timely, Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri 's new collection of short stories blurs parallel realities and walks the line between darkness and magic. No matter how different each story is in context or story line, Prayer for the Living is not simply a collection of different tales, it is a deliberate assemblage of universal truths that explores what it means to seek and to live. -- Los Angeles Review of Books [Okri's] new story collection, Prayer for the Living , spans the globe. -- Los Angeles Times This ambitious collection by the Booker Prize-winning literary author includes 23 stories, a dozen of them new, plus a poem, with works mingling the realistic, the magical, and the metafictional. -- Locus Magazine Ben Okri has a fantastic imagination. Reading the collection is similar to turning a glass snow globe and watching several dozen flakes each descending differently. He's not creating magical realism as much as redefining it...Okri's passion for the written word had my heart soaring. -- Woven Tale Press A career-spanning story collection from the Booker Prize-winning Nigerian writer that navigates the blurry line between dream and reality...'Alternative Realities Are True' is a dimension-warping detective story worthy of Philip K. Dick, and 'Don Ki-Otah and the Ambiguity of Reading' is a Don Quixote satire whose metafictional gamesmanship evokes Borges and Achebe...Okri skillfully embeds abstract ideas in concrete, engaging storytelling...Mind-bending and p