Starbook
The first novel from Ben Okri for five years, with all the style and imagination that won him the Booker, now in paperback
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Synopsis
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.
Editorial Reviews
"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
"Starbook's language is so intensely lyrical it reads like a shaman's incantation" - Financial Times
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