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The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age Synopsis
Twenty-five fairy tales for adults, these narratives are a response to our times, informed by our world but not limited by it, imaginative, enchanting, haunting - both prescient and prophetic. Twenty-five original paintings, beautiful, playful, intimate, dreamlike, these works pull you in to a land of colour and vision. Who can say which came first, the word or image, when both grew together out of a long friendship and a creative symbiosis. What if Calvino and Magritte had combined inspiration? What if we could see our world again with a child's eyes? What if there really is a magic lamp?
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781786694508 |
| Publication date: |
7th September 2017 |
| Author: |
Ben Okri |
| Publisher: |
Apollo |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pagination: |
128 pages |
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Ben Okri Press Reviews
PRAISE FOR BEN OKRI:
'Part narrative, part philosophy, part allegory ... a series of intriguing revelations' Daily Mail, on The Age of Magic
'There can be no mistaking Okri's passion and intelligence ... powerful' Sunday Telegraph, on A Way of Being Free
'Poetic writing of a very high order. Tender, nightmarish, wise and soulful' Daily Telegraph, on Dangerous Love
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About Ben Okri
Ben Okri has published many books including The Famished Road, which won the Booker Prize in 1991. His work has been translated into 26 languages and has won numerous international prizes including the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for Africa, the Paris Review Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the Chianti Ruffino-Antico Fattore International Literary Prize and the Premio Grinzane Cavour Prize.
The recipient of many honorary doctorates, he is a vice-president of the English Centre of International PEN and was presented the Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum for his outstanding contribution to the Arts and cross-cultural understanding in 1995.
He has been a Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge and is an honorary fellow of Mansfield College, Cambridge. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 1987 he was awarded an OBE in 2001. He was born in Nigeria, and lives in London.
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