Prayer for the Living: Stories
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- Synopsis
- Topical and timely, Booker Prize–winning author Ben Okri’s new collection of short stories blurs parallel realities and walks the line between darkness and magic.A Library Journal Best Book of 2021“No matter how different each story is in context or story line, Prayer for the Living is not simply a collection of different tales, it is a deliberate assemblage of universal truths that explores what it means to seek and to live.” —Los Angeles Review of BooksPlayful, frightening, shocking—these stories from a writer at the height of his power will make you think, or make you laugh. Sometimes they’ll make you want to look away, but they will always hold your gaze.These are stories set in London, in Byzantium, in the ghetto, in the Andes, and in a printer’s shop in Lagos. Characters include a murderer, a writer, a detective, a woman in a dream, a man in a mirror, a little girl, a prison door, and the author himself.Each one of these twenty-four stories will make you wonder if what you see in the world can really be all there is . . .
- Copyright:
- 2021
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 216 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781617758744
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781617758638
- Publisher:
- Akashic Books
- Date of Addition:
- 06/30/25
- Copyrighted By:
- Ben Okri
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Politics and Government
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.