Prayer for the Living by Okri, Ben

Prayer for the Living (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781617758638)

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Format: Hardcover
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Prayer for the Living by Okri, Ben

Prayer for the Living

$24.95
Prayer for the Living by Okri, Ben

Prayer for the Living

$24.95
Format: Hardcover
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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 it means to seek and to live." --Los Angeles Review of Books

Playful, frightening, shocking--these stories from a writer at the height of his power will make you think, or make you laugh. Sometimes they'll make you want to look away, but they will always hold your gaze.

These are stories set in London, in Byzantium, in the ghetto, in the Andes, and in a printer's shop in Lagos. Characters include a murderer, a writer, a detective, a woman in a dream, a man in a mirror, a little girl, a prison door, and the author himself.

Each one of these twenty-four stories will make you wonder if what you see in the world can really be all there is . . .



Author: Ben Okri
ISBN-10: 1617758639
ISBN-13: 9781617758638
Publisher: Akashic Books
Language: English
Published: 02/02/2021
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.20h x 5.20w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2020 pg. 46
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2020
Publishers Weekly 11/16/2020
Library Journal 01/01/2021 pg. 71
Shelf Awareness 02/05/2021
By Ben Okri
By Ben Okri
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Ben Okri was born in Minna, Nigeria. His childhood was divided between Nigeria, where he saw firsthand the consequences of war, and London. He won the Booker Prize in 1991 for The Famished Road, and his novel Astonishing the Gods was selected as one of the BBC's "100 Novels That Shaped Our World." His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He also writes plays and screenplays. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a vice president of English PEN, and has been awarded the OBE as well as numerous international prizes and honorary doctorates. His latest novel, The Freedom Artist, was published by Akashic Books.

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