<div>Winner of the Man Booker Prize: &ldquo;Okri shares with Garc&iacute;a M&aacute;rquez a vision of the world as one of infinite possibility. . . . A masterpiece&rdquo; (The Boston Sunday Globe). Azaro is a spirit child, an abiku, existing, according to the African tradition, between life and death. Born into the human world, he must experience its joys and tragedies. His spirit companions come to him often, hounding him to leave his mortal world and join them in their idyllic one. Azaro foresees a trying life ahead, but he is born smiling. This is his story. When President Bill Clinton first went to Africa he quoted from The Famished Road, which has inspired literature, art, politics, and pop songs&mdash;and even been referenced in an episode of The Simpsons. A transformative story for all ages and all times, it means many things to many people. Few contemporary novels have aroused as much passion as this one. Indeed, twenty-five years after its breakout publication, the iconic story of Azaro&rsquo;s travels continues to mesmerize new generations. For readers of Things Fall Apart or One Hundred Years of Solitude, this Man Booker Prize&ndash;winning blend of fabulism and gritty realism by the Nigerian author of Astonishing the Gods and Dangerous Love is a &ldquo;dazzling, hypnotic&rdquo; journey through Africa that &ldquo;weaves the humblest detail with the most extravagant flight of fancy to create an astonishing fictional tapestry&rdquo; (San Francisco Chronicle). Already considered a classic of world literature, it is &ldquo;a masterpiece if ever one existed&rdquo; (The Boston Sunday Globe). </div>

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The Famished Road

<div>A potent combination of political, metaphorical, and mythical storytelling&rdquo; from the prizewinning author of The Freedom Artist (The Scotsman).&ldquo;Who can be certain where the end begins?&rdquo; said Dad, shortly before he was arrested for the murder of the carpenter . . .This novel, the conclusion to the trilogy that began with the Man Booker Prize winner The Famished Road, follows the spirit-child Azaro, who travels between the worlds of the living and the dead. Set against the backdrop of a Nigerian village in turmoil, it is a novel about the multiple forms that wealth and power can take, the challenges of the physical world, and the wonders of the mystical world, by an author who has earned numerous literary honors and whose &ldquo;writing is hailed for its intelligence, tenderness, poeticism and luminosity&rdquo; (Financial Times). &ldquo;Ben Okri is that rare thing, a literary and social visionary, a writer for whom all three&mdash;literature, culture, and vision&mdash;are profoundly interwoven.&rdquo; &mdash;Ali Smith, author of Autumn</div>

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Infinite Riches

<div>Set in an African village, this follow-up to the Man Booker Prize&ndash;winning novel is &ldquo;sometimes whimsical, sometimes bawdy . . . Fraught with wild visions&rdquo; (The Times). &ldquo;All is not well in the African village where Azaro lives. The child narrator of poet and novelist Okri&rsquo;s The Famished Road, who had outwitted death in the previous book, again relates the oppressive events that continue to plague his village and his family. While political factionalization shatters the community&#39;s cohesiveness, the prodigious bar owner Madame Koto, chief exponent of the &lsquo;Party of the Rich,&rsquo; alternately exudes portentous metaphysical malaise and miraculous erotic force. Little Azaro, himself touched and distracted by a series of animuses, follows the heels of &lsquo;dad,&rsquo; who is a resounding vessel, by turns, of cantankerous egotism and abased self-sacrifice. This Nigerian epic reveals a violent provincial world, opaque with magical spirits which place horrendous ethical demands on fragile and fickle humanity, as if to test each individual for a thread of virtuous constancy at the core. Events drench the essentially linear narrative with all the ruthless sensuousness of a tropical storm, and Okri&rsquo;s prose is lucid and deft.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;Okri conjures up the fabulous with the same ease as he affectingly details the ways of the human spirit in a lovingly evoked African setting teeming with life&mdash;both real and mythic . . . Stunning.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews &ldquo;Once again we&rsquo;re bedazzled and bedeviled by Okri&rsquo;s phantasmagoric prose and the strange and wondrous sensibility of Azaro, a spirit-child living in a poor African village.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist &ldquo;Both a love story and an account of the political turmoil between the parties of Rich and Poor.&rdquo; &mdash;The Independent &ldquo;Passages of extraordinary beauty . . . Okri paints a convincing surrealist picture.&rdquo; &mdash;The Sunday Times</div>

Songs of Enchantment

<div>An NPR Best Book of 2020: “Okri’s tale is especially resonant in our current post-truth environment.” —Booklist (starred review) In a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman called Amalantis is arrested for asking a question. Her question is this: Who is the Prisoner? When Amalantis disappears, her lover Karnak goes looking for her. He searches desperately at first, then with a growing realization that to find Amalantis, he must first understand the meaning of her question. Karnak’s search leads him into a terrifying world of deception, oppression, and fear at the heart of which lies the prison. Then Karnak discovers that he is not the only one looking for the truth. The Freedom Artist is an impassioned plea for justice and a penetrating examination of how freedom is threatened in a post-truth society. In Ben Okri's most significant novel since the Booker Prize–winning The Famished Road, he delivers a powerful and haunting call to arms. “With the stark power of myth, this political allegory evolves into an argument for artistic freedom.” —The New York Times Book Review “[With] prophetic warnings of apocalypse akin to Octavia Butler’s The Parable of the Sower, The Freedom Artist offers a contemplative look at post-truth society.” —Sierra Magazine “The concise, declarative prose and the parable-like architecture of the stories resemble ancient forms of wisdom literature.” —The Wall Street Journal “Combines fable, folklore, and mythology with moments of surreal horror to produce a rallying cry against the oppressive institutions that would seek to make knowledge illegal.” —Locus Magazine</div>

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