1984
A01=Ben Okri
activism
America
Author_Ben Okri
Category=FBA
control
corona
dystopia
England
eq_bestseller
eq_fiction
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_modern-contemporary
eq_nobargain
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
forthcoming
freedom
George Orwell
Grenfell
Man Booker
mythology
Obama
philosophy
poetry
politics
post-truth
power
prisoner
protest
racism
The Famished Road
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
violence
virus
Product details
- ISBN 9781035930920
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 06 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Explore the extraordinary imagination of Booker Prize-winner and visionary author Ben Okri – one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature.
‘The hero of this novel finds what he did not seek, and goes where he did not intend to go. As I did in writing it. I set out to find one thing, but found another.’ BEN OKRI
In this disarmingly beautiful modern fable with an ancient origin, a young man finds himself living among invisible beings who have built a utopia based on one principle: that we must repeat every experience until we live it properly and fully for the first time.
'Beautiful. A new creation myth' Daily Telegraph
'Amazing. I think this is as close as you can get to reliving the experience of a bedtime story' Guardian
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 prizes over the years for his 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'.
