If fate closes a door for her, it is because it wants you to find a bigger one. Every obstacle gives us a magical solution.
The new collection of short stories by Ben Okri, winner of the Booker Prize, mixes different levels of reality, always poised between darkness and magic. Irreverent, incredible, even shocking, the stories in this collection redraw the boundaries between illusion and reality.
- Plot Prayer For The Living Ben Okri
The stories are set in London, in Byzantium, in the ghetto, in the Andes, in the workshop of a printer in Spain. Among the characters, a murderer, a writer, a detective, a man in a cave and a man in a mirror, two children, a prison door and the author himself. An author at the height of his expressive power, who knows how to masterfully master the medium of the story to make the reader laugh, to make him think, to make him completely overturn his point of view on what surrounds him. Twenty-three stories, twenty-three worlds in which to wonder where the boundary between illusion and reality is.
He was born in Minn, Nigeria, and 4 lives in London. He has published numerous books, including The Way of Hunger, I Am Invisible, A Dangerous Love and Freedom. Lee's works are translated into 27 languages and have been awarded several international literary awards.
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