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  • Dangerous Love

    A Novel

    by Ben Okri ...
    From the Booker Prize–winning author of The Famished Road, a classic story of doomed love in a country trying to come to terms with its violent past.An epic of daily life, Dangerous Love is one of Ben Okri’s most accessible and most disarming novels.Omovo is an office worker and artist who lives at home with his father and his father’s second wife. In the communal world of the compound in which he ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Justice and Love

    A Philosophical Dialogue

    by Mary Zournazi, The Right Reverend and Right Honourable Lord Williams of Oystermouth Rowan Williams ...
    How do we see and act justly in the world? In what ways can we ethically respond to social and economic crisis? How do we address the desperation that exists in the new forms of violence and atrocity? These are all questions at the heart of Justice and Love, a philosophical dialogue on how to imagine and act in a more just world by theologian Rowan Williams and philosopher Mary Zournazi.Looking at ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Tiger Work

    Stories, Essays and Poems About Climate Change

    by Ben Okri ...
    In this poignant, timely collection, the renowned Booker Prize–winning author evokes the magic of nature and the urgency of protecting our environment.Twenty thousand years after a catastrophe wiped out the human race, visitors uncover their final messages scattered across the planet, in flooded cities and disintegrating books. These writings reveal the tragedies of people who continued to live as ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Last Gift of the Master Artists

    A Novel

    by Ben Okri ...
    The Booker Prize–winning author, a child of the Nigerian Civil War, reinvents through the story of the Atlantic slave trade the beautiful soul and resilient culture of his country.A boy and a girl meet by chance on a riverbank in Africa. One is the son of a king, struggling to find his place in the world, the other the daughter of a craftsman from the secretive tribe of master artists. The prince, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Prayer For The Living

    by Ben Okri ...
    Narrated by Ben Okri ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 40 min

    Topical and timely, Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri's new collection of short stories blur parallel realities and walk the line between darkness and magic.Is what you see all there is? Look again. Playful, frightening, even shocking – the stories in this collection blur the lines between illusion and reality. This is a writer at the height of his power, making the reader think, making them ... Read more

    $17.99 USD $13.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

  • Songs of Enchantment

    A Novel

    by Ben Okri ...
    Series series The Famished Road Trilogy
    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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mystery Feast

    Thoughts on Storytelling

    by Ben Okri ...
    '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 ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mental Fight

    An Epic Poem

    by Ben Okri ...
    An epic poem touching on issues of racism, intolerance, and environmental destruction, from the Booker Prize–winning author.There is much to celebrate in the human journey so far—art in all its forms, advances made in the fields of technology and medicine, and for many of us, the miracle of freedom. But there is also much to regret—racism, intolerance, the destruction of our environment, the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Famished Road

    A Novel

    by Ben Okri ...
    Series series The Famished Road Trilogy
    Winner of the Man Booker Prize: “Okri shares with García Márquez 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 often, h... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Every Leaf a Hallelujah

    by Ben Okri ...
    **The Guardian: Best Children's and YA Book of the YearAn environmental fairytale that speaks eloquently to the most pressing issues of our times, from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Famished Road.**Mangoshi lives with her mom and dad in a village near the forest. When her mom becomes ill, Mangoshi knows only one thing can help her—a special flower that grows deep in the forest.The little ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Infinite Riches

    A Novel

    by Ben Okri ...
    Series series The Famished Road Trilogy
    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, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Prayer for the Living

    by Ben Okri ...
    Topical and timely, Booker Prize–winning author Ben Okri's new collection of short stories blurs parallel realities and walks the line between darkness and magic.A Library Journal Best Book of 2021"No matter how different each story is in context or story line, Prayer for the Living is not simply a collection of different tales, it is a deliberate assemblage of universal truths that explores what ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook