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Prayer for the living : stories / Ben Okri.
Van Pelt Library PR9387.9.O394 P73 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Okri, Ben, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Magic--Fiction.
- Magic.
- Mixed reality.
- Mixed reality--Fiction.
- Murderers--Fiction.
- Murderers.
- Authors--Fiction.
- Authors.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Short stories.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 214 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Okri's new collection of short stories blur parallel realities and walk the line between darkness and magic. Is what you see all there is? Look again. 0Playful, frightening, even shocking - the stories in this collection blur the lines between illusion and reality. This is a writer at the height of his power, making the reader think, making them laugh, and sometimes making them want to look away while holding their gaze. Stories here are set in London, in Byzantium, in the ghetto, in the Andes, in a printer's shop in Spain. The characters include a murderer, a writer, a detective, a man in a cave, a man in a mirror, two little boys, a prison door, and the author himself. There are twenty-three stories in all. Each one will make you wonder if what you see in the world is all there is ..."--Publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Boko Haram (1)
- Prayer for the Living
- An Inca Elegy
- A Sinister Perfection
- Ancient Ties of Karma
- Dreaming of Byzantium
- The Canopy
- In the Ghetto
- Hail
- Mysteries
- Tulips
- The Lie
- Boko Haram (2)
- The Master's Mirror
- The Standeruppers
- Alternative Realities Are True
- The Story in the Next Room
- The Overtaker
- Raft
- The Secret History of a Door
- The Offering
- Don Ki-Otah and the Ambiguity of Reading
- Boko Haram (3)
- A Street
- All We Do (poem).
- Notes:
- Subtitle taken from dust jacket.
- ISBN:
- 9781617758638
- 1617758639
- OCLC:
- 1143635801
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