New Releases by Ben Okri

Ben Okri is the author of A Way of Being Free (2015), El camino hambriento (2013), Tales of Freedom (2010), Contes de la liberté (2010), Starbook (2008).

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A Way of Being Free

release date: Mar 12, 2015
A Way of Being Free
From Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: twelve of his most controversial non-fiction pieces form this collection on the theme of freedom. Ranging from the personal to the analytical, covering subjects such as art, politics, storytelling and creativity, A WAY OF BEING FREE confirms Okri''s place as one of the most inspiring of contemporary writers. ''All I wanted to do was to remind myself at all times to just sing my song. To just sing it through all the difficulties and silences'' BEN OKRI.

El camino hambriento

release date: Jan 01, 2013

Tales of Freedom

release date: Mar 01, 2010
Tales of Freedom
As one of Britain''s foremost poets, Ben Okri is rightly acclaimed for his use of language. And as a Booker Prize winning novelist, this skill was shown to particular effect in both Starbook (his most recent work) and in The Famished Road. In Tales of Freedom he brings both poetry and story together in a fascinating new form, using writing and image pared down to their essentials, where haiku and story meet. Thus we discover Pinprop, the slave to an old couple lost in a clearing, who holds the keys to the universe in his quirky hands. Then there is the beautifully dressed black Russian on the train, helping to film a new version of ''Eugene Onegin''. Later, in the chaos of the aftermath of war, orphaned children paint mysterious shapes of bulls, birds, hybrid creatures, and we wonder if grief has unhinged them into genius...And who is that woman, who hardly speaks, who presses a tiny flower into the palm of the young boy on the bus, and then leaves his life forever? Tales of Freedom offers a haunting necklace of images which flash and sparkle as the light shines on them. Quick and stimulating to read, but slowly burning in the memory, they offer a different, more transcendent way of looking at our extreme, gritty world - and show the wealth of freedom that''s available beyond the confines of our usual perceptions.

Contes de la liberté

release date: Jan 01, 2010
Contes de la liberté
Combinant ses talents de poète et de romancier, Ben Okri a créé une forme nouvelle et fascinante, qu''il appelle " stoku ", à mi-chemi entre la nouvelle et le haïku. Selon ses propres mots, " son origine est mystérieuse, son but est la révélation, sa forme compacte, son sujet infini. Sa nature est l''énigme ". Ben Okri développe cet univers poétique dans une novella construite comme une fable mythologique, suivie de treize contes brefs. Autant d''énigmes inventives qui marquent durablement notre psyché. Toutes ces histoires illustrent la richesse d''une liberté que l''on se doit de chercher au-delà de nos perceptions quotidiennes et proposent un mode différent d''appréhension du monde, dur et extrême, qui nous entoure.

Starbook

release date: Nov 21, 2008
Starbook
Starbook tells the tale of a prince and a maiden in a mythical land where a golden age is ending. Their fragile story considers the important questions we all face, exploring creativity, wisdom, suffering and transcendence in a time when imagination still ruled the world. A magnificent achievement and a modern-day parable, Starbook offers a vision of life far greater than ourselves.

Zvedzdana knjiga

release date: Jan 01, 2008

Star Book

release date: Jan 01, 2007

In Arcadia

release date: Jan 01, 2003
In Arcadia
A group of angry and ill-assorted people accept an invitation to make a journey. Inspired by a painting and financed by a mysterious benefactor, they set off to discover the real Arcadia. Or what remains of it. Their journey begins in ignorance and chaos at Waterloo station and takes them through superstition and myth to harmony. In the Louvre, in front of Poussin''s masterpiece they begin to understand. ''IN ARCADIA takes that staple Shakespearean theme of appearance versus reality and uses it to explore the notion of paradise'' Scotsman

Een gevaarlijke liefde

release date: Jan 01, 2003
Een gevaarlijke liefde
Een jonge Afrikaanse kunstenaar die op zoek is naar zichzelf, kijjgt een tot mislukken gedoemde verhouding met een op traditioneel Afrikaanse wijze getrouwde jonge vrouw.

En Arcadie

release date: Jan 01, 2003
En Arcadie
Quelles sont les Arcadies de Ben Okri ? " Je ne saurais vous répondre. Ce serait comme de vous donner la combinaison de mon coffre-fort, où j''accumule mes biens. Cela m''a pris longtemps de révéler le Poussin. Je suis endeuillé... C''est comme de dévoiler une belle histoire que ma mère me racontait quand j''étais enfant - quelque chose qui était juste à vous et que désormais les autres partagent. Parfois vous pourriez mourir pour l''Arcadie. Pour mon père, c''était une photographie de ma grand-mère. Pour Citizen Kane, c''était Rosebud. Pour ma mère, une maison. Les gens aussi ont des Arcadies. Que pensez-vous qu''elle soit pour les Anglais ? L''Empire ? Je veux dire Empire mais sans le sens chargé. Tout le principe du livre est le désir de s''écarter de ses vieux moi, de ses vieilles croyances, de ses anciennes pensées négatives, de ses réactions gênées afin d''être plus libre. " The Independent Magazine

Songs of the Enchantment

release date: Jan 01, 2002
Songs of the Enchantment
Azaro the spirit child is a reluctant traveller in the realities of this world. His adventures begin with the disruption of his family, when, under the pressure of poverty and myth, his mother goes off to follow the legendary Madame Koto. An obsession for a beautiful beggar girl ensnares his father into forbidden visions. Through the experiences of this unique family the reader learns that life lived with compassion, fire and serenity can vanquish the forces of oppression and counter the darkness with light.

Die hungrige Straße

release date: Jan 01, 2000

Gevecht in de geest

release date: Jan 01, 2000
Gevecht in de geest
Polemisch gedicht bij de millenniumwende tegen cynisme en defaitisme.

Afrikanische Elegie

release date: Jan 01, 1999

Amor peligroso

release date: Jan 01, 1998

Näljutatud tee

release date: Jan 01, 1998

La route de la faim

release date: Jan 01, 1997
La route de la faim
Au Nigéria, avant l''indépendance, le parcours initiatique d''une "enfant-esprit" qui nous fait pénétrer dans une Afrique où le cauchemar de la lutte quotidienne contre la famile s''illumine d''un émerveillement devant la beauté de la vie et d''un monde dans lequel esprits et hommes cohabitent.

Birds of Heaven

release date: Jan 01, 1996

Verfängliche Liebe

release date: Jan 01, 1996

Vaarallista rakkautta

release date: Jan 01, 1996

Paul Klee

release date: Jan 01, 1995

Droga bez dna

release date: Jan 01, 1994

De hongerende weg

release date: Jan 01, 1992
De hongerende weg
In een Afrikaans dorp laat een opgroeiend jongetje zich in zijn omgang met anderen leiden door zijn contacten met geesten.

Stars of the New Curfew

release date: Jan 01, 1988
Stars of the New Curfew
Noveller fra 1980ernes Lagos om den rige og fattige indbyggere
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