Astonishing The Gods

Okri, Ben

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A young man is transported to an enchanted isle in a quest to discover the secrets of visibility. He finds himself amidst a society of invisible beings who have built a utopia based on a single law – ‘every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully for the first time’.

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Publish Date: 12/03/2015

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Selected as one of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World’. From Booker Prize winner Ben Okri, a deceptively simple modern fable with an ancient origin. A young man finds himself living among invisible beings who have built a utopia based on one principle: that we must repeat or suffer every experience until we experience it properly and fully for the first time.’A modern day classicEvening StandardBeautiful. A new creation myth’ Daily Telegraph‘Amazing. I think this is as close as you can get to reliving the experience of a bedtime storyGuardian

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Weight 164 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 14 mm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

viii, 160

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K