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Astonishing the Gods - Softcover

Okri, Ben

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Synopsis

From the Booker prize-winning author of The Famished Road comes this bewitching novel. It is a modern fable about the relationship between love, suffering and creativity. Set on an enchanted island, Astonishing the Gods is shot through with the gentle magic of Ben Okri's imaginative prose.

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About the Author

Ben Okri has published many books including The Famished Road, which won the Booker Prize in 1991, Songs of Enchantment, Astonishing the Gods and Dangerous Love. He has also published two books of poems, the most recent being Mental Fight, and a collection of non-fiction, A Way of Being Free. He has been a Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts, at Trinity College, Cambridge and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Ben Okri's books have won several awards including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Paris Review Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore International Literary Prize and the Premio Grinzane Cavour Prize. He is a vice-president of the English Centre of International PEN and was presented with the Crystal Award for outstanding contribution to the Arts and to cross-cultural understanding by the World Economic Forum. In addition, the University of Westminster awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Literature. Ben Okri was born in Minna, Nigeria and lives in London.

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