The Last Gift of the Master Artists

ISBN-13: 9781838935870 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 330 str.

Ben Okri

Opis

Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri's latest novel, this tale of the time immediately before the arrival of the Atlantic slave trade restores a lost history to Okri's Nigerian homeland.

Recenzje

A magical take on Africa before the arrival of the Atlantic slave ships - a world of art and artists, lovers, storytellers and philosophers... The beauty of Okri's prose is [...] the overwhelming star of the show Independent

O autorze

Ben Okri was born in Minna, Nigeria. His childhood was divided between Nigeria, where he saw first-hand the consequences of war, and London. He has won many awards over the years, including the Booker Prize for Fiction, and is also an acclaimed essayist, playwright, and poet. In 2019 Astonishing the Gods was named as one of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'.