Triumphant...a joyful and entertaining read (Guardian)"Passages of extraordinary beauty... Okri paints a convincing surrealist picture" (Sunday Times)"Reading Okri felt to me like talking to someone who has a secret" (New Statesman)"Ben Okri writes beautifully... a triumph of inspiration over the everyday. His prose is dense with pungent metaphor, sometimes whimsical, sometimes bawdy... fraught with wild visions" (The Times)"A love story and an account of the conflict between the parties of the rich and the poor... Okri's voice is all his own" (Independent) One great thought can change the dreams of the world. One great action, lived out all the way to the sea, can change the history of the world. The adventures of Azaro, the spirit child, continue. From the bestselling author of The Famished Road comes this radiant sequel.

Songs of Enchantment [Paperback] [Jan 01, 1994] Ben Okri

Literature & Fiction

OKRI,BEN

Contemporary

Vintage Books

This collection of short stories is set in Nigeria and reflects the mad, exotic and often dangerous chaos which reigns there. They include jumbled up voodoo stories, stories of shanty towns and of men from the villages seeking their fortunes in the streets and filthy gutters of the new towns.

Stars of the New Curfew

Genre Fiction

Incidents at the Shrine is the first collection of stories by the author of 1991 Booker Prize-winning novel, The Famished Road. Whether the subject is a child's eye view of the Nigerian Civil War, Lagos and the spirit world or dispossession in a decaying British inner city, Okri's lyrical, poetic and humorous prose recreates the known and the unknown world with startling power.

INCIDENTS AT THE SHRINE

Stars of the New Curfew (King Penguin)

Literary

Penguin??Books

Dreams are the currency of Okri's writing, particularly in this first book of poems, An African Elegy, but also in his books of short stories and prize-winning novel The Famished Road. Okri's dreams are made on the stuff of Africa's colossal economic and political problems, and reading the poems is to experience a constant succession of metaphors of resolution in both senses of the word. Virtually every poem contains an exhortation to climb out of the African miasma, and virtually every poem harvests the dream of itself with an upbeat restorative ending' - Giles Foden, Times Literary Supplement

An African Elegy

Poetry

RANDOM HOUSE UK

In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri's Famished Road has become a classic. Like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children or Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, it combines brilliant narrative technique with a fresh vision to create an essential work of world literature. The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death. The life he foresees for himself and the tale he tells is full of sadness and tragedy, but inexplicably he is born with a smile on his face. Nearly called back to the land of the dead, he is resurrected. But in their efforts to save their child, Azaro's loving parents are made destitute. The tension between the land of the living, with its violence and political struggles, and the temptations of the carefree kingdom of the spirits propels this latter-day Lazarus's story.

Famished Road

David Hammons: Day's End

Arts & Photography

Weinberg, Adam D.

Nordenson, Guy

Jones Ph.D., Kellie

History & Criticism

Whitney Museum of American Art

Astonishing the Gods

Little, Brown Canada

Azaro, a "spirit-child" from a ghetto community in Africa, uses his instinctual memory from ancient times to see the hate and violence that keep his people trapped in poverty

The Famished Road

British & Irish

Nan A. Talese/Doubleday

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