Madame Sosostris & the Festival for the Broken-Hearted by Ben Okri

Madame Sosostris & the Festival for the Broken-Hearted by Ben Okri

Explore the extraordinary imagination of Booker Prize-winner and visionary author Ben Okri - one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature.

Hearts will be healed and hearts broken, but no one will leave this festival as they arrived…

Viv has turned heartbreak into spectacle: a one-night-only masked festival at a French château, marking the anniversary of her first husband’s departure. Guests roam the moonlit woods in search of reinvention, all waiting for Madame Sosostris, the elusive clairvoyant of The Waste Land, rumoured to appear after decades in hiding.

But as midnight nears, disguises slip, emotions ignite and Viv’s carefully planned celebration begins to unravel.

Enchanting and unsettling, this midsummer tale explores love, illusion and the strange transformations of a single night.

'[A] whimsical tale of transformation... magic is essential, and Okri can spin it.' Guardian
'Full of rich hallucinatory imagery and enjoyably vibrant symbolism' Irish Times

[Okri’s] writing takes on the great riddles of existence – freedom and consciousness, truth and illusion, suffering and transcendence – spinning them into shimmering, allegorical texts * New York Times *
A writer who refuses to stop asking the hardest questions * Observer *
Okri can distil language to its essence.. his sentences have a careful simplicity, but not at the expense of eloquent writing’ * Financial Times *
Okri is incapable of writing a boring sentence * Independent on Sunday *
Ben Okri is that rare thing, a literary and social visionary, a writer for whom all three – literature, culture and vision – are profoundly interwoven -- Ali Smith
Okri’s writing has a light-as-air elegance * New Statesman *
Fiction's master enchanter -- Ben Okri

Sir Ben Okri was born in Minna, Nigeria. His childhood was divided between Nigeria, where he saw first-hand the consequences of war, and London. He has won many awards over the years, including the Booker Prize for Fiction, and is also an acclaimed essayist, playwright, and poet. In 2019 Astonishing the Gods was named as one of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'.

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ISBN 13	9781035910755
ISBN 10	1035910756
Title	Madame Sosostris & the Festival for the Broken-Hearted
Author	Ben Okri
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2025-03-06
Number of pages	208
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.