The Age Of Magic

Author: Ben Okri

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  • : 9781784081485
  • : Bloomsbury
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  • : October 2015
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  • : July 2015
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Barcode 9781784081485
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Description

'The Age of Magic has begun. Unveil your eyes.' Eight weary film-makers, travelling from Paris to Basel, arrive at a small Swiss hotel on the shores of a luminous lake. Above them, strewn with lights that twinkle in the darkness, looms the towering Rigi mountain. Over the course of three days and two nights, the travellers will find themselves drawn in to the mystery of the mountain reflected in the lake. One by one, they will be disturbed, enlightened, and transformed, each in a different way. An intoxicating and dreamlike tale unfolds. Allow yourself to be transformed. Having shown a different way of seeing the world, Ben Okri now offers a different way of reading. ALSO BY BEN OKRI: Astonishing the Gods, In Arcadia, A Way of Being Free, Dangerous Love.

Reviews

'Okri is incapable of writing a boring sentence' Independent on Sunday. 'Part narrative, part philosophy, part allegory ... this novel offers the reader not just a story, but a series of intriguing and revelations on the mysterious and blurring of the lines between life and death, illusion and reality, and good and evil' Daily Mail. 'A dreamlike modern fairytale ... Strange and poetic' The Times.

Author description

Ben Okri has published many books, including The Famished Road, which won the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into 26 languages and won numerous international prizes. Born in Nigeria, he lives in London.