Winner of the Man Booker Prize: "Okri shares with Garc í a M á rquez a vision of the world as one of infinite possibility. . . . A masterpiece" ( The Boston Sunday Globe).Azaro is a spirit child, an abiku, existing, according to the African tradition, between life and death. Born into the human world, he must experience its joys and tragedies. His spirit companions come to him oft...

Journey between the land of the Living and the spirit world in this magical Booker Prize-winning novel'So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use'Azaro, is a spirit child, who in many traditions of Nigeria exists between life and death. Born into a difficult world, Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, where the...

'In every moment, we are part of the infinite stories that the universe is telling us and that we are telling the universe.' Packed with ideas and inspiration, The Mystery Feast offers numerous pathways into the magical world of storytelling. Beginning with a poem, 'All we do', Booker prize-winning novelist Ben Okri presents his considered thoughts on the purpose and meaning of stories, concluding with a series of condensed 'Notes to the modern storyteller'. The collection is completed wit...

Hunt, trek, and feast among Neanderthals in this stunning novel by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies.This was a different voice; not the voice of the people. It was the voice of other.When spring comes, the people leave their winter cave, foraging for honey, grubs, and the hot richness of a deer's brain. They awaken the fire to heat their naked bodies, lay down t...

Set in an African village, this follow-up to the Man Booker Prize–winning novel is "sometimes whimsical, sometimes bawdy . . . Fraught with wild visions" ( The Times)."All is not well in the African village where Azaro lives. The child narrator of poet and novelist Okri's The Famished Road, who had outwitted death in the previous book, again relates the oppressive events that continue to plague his village and his family. While political factional...

'[A] whimsical tale of transformation... magic is essential, and Okri can spin it.' Guardian**'Full of rich hallucinatory imagery and enjoyably vibrant symbolism' Irish TimesWhat do you do when your heart has been made a wasteland by love?Viv, who's in the House of Lords, had the idea for the festival on the twentieth anniversary of the day her first husband left her. Six months later, cro...

A potent combination of political, metaphorical, and mythical storytelling" from the prizewinning author of The Freedom Artist ( The Scotsman)."Who can be certain where the end begins?" said Dad, shortly before he was arrested for the murder of the carpenter . . .This novel, the conclusion to the trilogy that began with the Man Booker Prize winner The Famished Road, follows the spirit-child Azaro, who travels between the ...

'One of the most beautiful and profound novels I've read in ages' Washington Post'A magical take on Africa before the arrival of the Atlantic slave ships' Independent'Takes on the great riddles of existence' New York TimesBy a riverbank in Africa, two lovers meet for the first time. They make a promise to meet again the next day, same time, same place, but only one of them shows up.T...

When the world ends, only the underground mysteries will save us…A great wall is rising on the horizon and a foreign army is massing on the borders of the small country of Nevereach. As invaders prepare to smash the last of the resistance, three unlikely heroes emerge from the exhausted populace.Mel, Rosa and Apibus, driven by the loss of loved ones, inspired by old stories and guided by a mysterious star, set out to save their world by rousing the...

Camus' sparse parable about the human condition is one of the great stories of the 20th Century, here adapted for the stage by Booker prize winner Ben Okri.A faceless man who can no longer pretend, Mersault commits a senseless murder under the glare of the Algerian sun. On trial he feels distanced from proceedings, he is castigated for not expressing remorse, for not crying at his mother's funeral, and is forced to confront the hypocrisy and injustice of society. In an age where we...

From Booker Prize-Winner Ben Okri. A group of world-weary travellers discover the meaning of life in a mysterious mountain village.Eight film-makers arrive at a small Swiss hotel on the shores of a luminous lake. Above them, strewn with lights that twinkle in the darkness, looms the towering Rigi mountain.Over the course of three days and two nights, the travellers will find themselves drawn in to the mystery of the mountain reflected in the lake. One by one, they will be d...

The Nobel Prize–nominated Kenyan writer’s powerful first novelTwo brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. But this is Kenya, and the times are against them: In the forests, the Mau Mau is waging war against the white government, and the two brothers and their family need to decide where their loyalties lie. For the practical Kamau, the choice is simple, ...