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Dangerous Love (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781635422665)
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xFrom 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 lives, Omovo has both friends and enemies, but his most important relationship is with Ifeyiwa, a beautiful young married woman whom he loves with an almost hopeless passion--not because she doesn't return his love, but because they can never be together.
Against the backdrop of Nigeria's civil war, Ben Okri creates an atmosphere where passion takes on a wholly different dimension as danger, greed, hunger, and betrayal loom at every turn.
Author: Ben Okri
ISBN-10: 1635422663
ISBN-13: 9781635422665
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Language: English
Published: 02/14/2023
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.50w x 1.00d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/19/2022
Shelf Awareness 02/17/2023
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 lives, Omovo has both friends and enemies, but his most important relationship is with Ifeyiwa, a beautiful young married woman whom he loves with an almost hopeless passion--not because she doesn't return his love, but because they can never be together.
Against the backdrop of Nigeria's civil war, Ben Okri creates an atmosphere where passion takes on a wholly different dimension as danger, greed, hunger, and betrayal loom at every turn.
Author: Ben Okri
ISBN-10: 1635422663
ISBN-13: 9781635422665
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Language: English
Published: 02/14/2023
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.50w x 1.00d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/19/2022
Shelf Awareness 02/17/2023
By Ben Okri
xBen Okri is a playwright, poet, novelist, essayist, short-story writer, anthologist, and aphorist. He has also written film scripts. His works have won numerous national and international prizes, including the Booker Prize for Fiction. His books include the eco-fable Every Leaf a Hallelujah, the play Changing Destiny, the genre-bending climate fiction Tiger Work, the poetry collections A Fire in My Head and Mental Fight, and the novels Astonishing the Gods, The Last Gift of the Master Artists, and Dangerous Love. In 2023 he received a knighthood for services to literature.
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