"Verfängliche Liebe" ist ein faszinierendes und komplexes Werk des nigerianischen Autors Ben Okri. Das Buch dreht sich um die Protagonistin, eine junge Frau namens Lao, die in einer Welt voller politischer Unruhen und sozialer...

'One of the most beautiful and profound novels I've read in ages' Washington Post 'A magical take on Africa before the arrival of the Atlantic slave ships' Independent 'Takes on the great riddles of existence' New York Times By a...

Ben Okri has published 8 novels, including The Famished Road, as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and...

The Freedom Artist von Okri, Ben

Wild und doch gebändigt: Das sind die mythischen Kräfte von Liebe, Musik und Träumen in den Gedichten von Ben Okri. In den Nachbildern von Löwen, Flüssen, Kriegern rufen sie antike Stimmen auf wie Homer, Heraklit und Vergil, aber sie...

In Rise Like Lions, Booker Prize winning writer Ben Okri has compiled a collection of poems that celebrate the many voices of politics, from polemics and rallying cries to lyrics and meditations. Many of these poems have resonated with...

Topical and timely, Booker Prize-winning author Ben 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. Playful, frightening, even...

A collection of new and recently completed poems by Ben Okri covering topics of the day, such as the refugee crisis, racism, Obama, the Grenfell Tower fire, and the Corona outbreak. von Okri, Ben

In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri's Famished Road has become a classic. Like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children or Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, it combines brilliant narrative technique...

Die hungrige Straße von Okri, Ben