Starbook by Ben Okri
Starbook tells the tale of a prince and a maiden in a mythical land where a golden age is ending. Their fragile story considers the important questions we all face, exploring creativity, wisdom, suffering and transcendence in a time when imagination still ruled the world. A magnificent achievement and a modern-day parable, Starbook offers a vision of life far greater than ourselves.
"A work of magic" * Sunday Times *
"Booker prize-winning Ben Okri's first novel in five years stands in the grand tradition of myth-making exemplified in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Midnight's Children, although the book has a vision and voice uniquely its own" * Observer *
"It is with epic grace that Okri constructs[He] passionately considers the nuts and bolts of the creative process...how observing art might do so much as to effect change in a human being" * Independent on Sunday *
"Starbook is wondrous...[Okri] has a diction which glides superbly. His ear is pitch perfect" * Scotsman *
"A quite beautiful elegy...there is something delightful in Okri's cosmic world-view" * Big Issue *
"Booker prize-winning Ben Okri's first novel in five years stands in the grand tradition of myth-making exemplified in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Midnight's Children, although the book has a vision and voice uniquely its own" * Observer *
"It is with epic grace that Okri constructs[He] passionately considers the nuts and bolts of the creative process...how observing art might do so much as to effect change in a human being" * Independent on Sunday *
"Starbook is wondrous...[Okri] has a diction which glides superbly. His ear is pitch perfect" * Scotsman *
"A quite beautiful elegy...there is something delightful in Okri's cosmic world-view" * Big Issue *
Ben Okri has published 8 novels, including The Famished Road, as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been awarded the OBE as well as numerous international prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore. He is a Vice-President of the English Centre of International PEN and was presented with a Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. He was born in Nigeria and lives in London.
| SKU | Non disponible |
| ISBN 13 | 9781846040818 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846040817 |
| Titre | Starbook |
| Auteur | Ben Okri |
| État | Non disponible |
| Type de reliure | Paperback |
| Éditeur | Ebury Publishing |
| Année de publication | 2008-07-03 |
| Nombre de pages | 432 |
| Note de couverture | La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier. |
| Note | Non disponible |