A collection of exquisitely crafted essays by Ben Okri, one of Britain's foremost poets, and a Booker Prize-winning novelist, that explore such diverse themes as childhood and creativity, beauty, censorship, art and politics.
Ben Okri has published many books, including The Famished Road, which won the Booker Prize, and The Age of Magic. His work has been translated into 27 languages and won numerous international prizes. Born in Nigeria, he lives in London
PRAISE FOR STARBOOK:
'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 a voice uniquely its own' Observer.
'A work of magic' Sunday Times.
'[Okri] has a diction which glides superbly. His ear is pitch
perfect' * Scotsman *
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