Starbook Ben Okri

Name: Starbook By Ben Okri
SKU: 9781846040818
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Starbook by Ben Okri

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Summary

Starbook tells the tale of a prince and a maiden in a mythical land where a golden age is ending. A magnificent achievement and a modern-day parable, Starbook offers a vision of life far greater than ourselves.

Starbook Summary

Starbook by Ben Okri

Starbook tells the tale of a prince and a maiden in a mythical land where a golden age is ending. Their fragile story considers the important questions we all face, exploring creativity, wisdom, suffering and transcendence in a time when imagination still ruled the world. A magnificent achievement and a modern-day parable, Starbook offers a vision of life far greater than ourselves.

Starbook Reviews

A work of magic * Sunday Times *
Booker prize-winning Ben Okri's first novel in five years stands in the grand tradition of myth-making exemplified in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Midnight's Children, although the book has a vision and voice uniquely its own * Observer *
It is with epic grace that Okri constructs. [He] passionately considers the nuts and bolts of the creative process...how observing art might do so much as to effect change in a human being * Independent on Sunday *
Starbook is wondrous...[Okri] has a diction which glides superbly. His ear is pitch perfect * Scotsman *
A quite beautiful elegy...there is something delightful in Okri's cosmic world-view * Big Issue *

About 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.

Additional information

Sku

GOR001586945

ISBN 13

9781846040818

ISBN 10

1846040817

Title

Starbook by Ben Okri

Author

Ben Okri

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Ebury Publishing

Year published

20080703

Number of pages

432

Prizes

N/A

Cover note

Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

Note

This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us