Ben Okri

Astonishing the Gods

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From Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: a deceptively simple modern fable with an ancient origin.

A young man finds himself living among invisible beings who have built a utopia based on one principle: that we must repeat or suffer every experience until we experience it properly and fully for the first time.

'The hero of this novel finds what he did not seek, and goes where he did not intend to go. As I did in writing it.' BEN OKRI.

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120 printed pages
Copyright owner
Head of Zeus
Publication year
2014
Publisher
Head of Zeus
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    he was being filled to bursting with future knowledge and with joy enough to last all the darkness that was to come
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    a dizzying understanding of all the nameless things he would need to know when he would need to know them.
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    The voice that was his guide was silent; it was only the instinct of another presence which calmed him as he walked through the serenity of the island.

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