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In Arcadia

In Arcadia

by Ben Okri (Author)

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    Hardcover 2002

    $3.29

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    Paperback 2003

    $3.29
Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 320
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 12 Sep 2002
ISBN 10: 0297829602
ISBN 13: 9780297829607
Book Overview: Praise for Ben Okri 'Okri's writing is hailed for its intelligence, tenderness, poeticism and luminosity' Financial Times 'Poetic writing of a very high order...tender, nightmarish, wise and soulful' Daily Telegraph 'A potent combination of political, metaphorical and mythical storytelling...pure celebration' Scotsman 'He delivers the profound in novels whose haunting qualities linger...no other contemporary author captures the ephemeral with as much success' Good Book Guide ASTONISHING THE GODS sold over 50,000 copies and DANGEROUS LOVE 60,000 copies. Weidenfeld & Nicolson sold over 30,000 copies of INFINITE RICHES and 15,000 of MENTAL FIGHT.

Media Reviews
Fiona at FMCM, has been handling the publicity for this title and we set a press date of 26 September. An interview in the INDEPENDENT ran on 5 Septemberand Ben did THE READERS AND WRITERS ROADSHOW (BBC4) on 24 October. He was interviewed on RATTLEBAG (RTE) the week of 28 October and the BBC WORLD SERVICEBOOK CLUB are interviewing Ben about Famished Road, which will run the week of 23-26 December He is also being interviewed for THIRD WAY magazine. Ben did a wonderful event at the Cheltenham Festival on 18 October. Reviews are coming in thick and fast - it was' Book of the Week' in THE TIMES on 28 September , Bel Mooney giving it an excellent review. There have also been reviews inTHE SUNDAY TIMES by Hugo Barnacle THE GUARDIAN, THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH and THEINDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY Ultimately, this is a voyage of self-discovery . . . giving Okri theopportunity to meditate on subjects from crime and homelessness to thelanguage of butterflies, as he contrasts his hellish, apocalyptic visionof the state we're in with a lost pastoral idyll. Hephzibah Anderson, THE DAILY MAIL As in all of his books, you cannot fault Okri for confronting thebigissues and asking questions of our secular age that few of hiscontemporaries have the innocence or bravery to attempt Tim Adams, OBSERVER 'There is a love of contradiction in Okri, which sometimes produces great sentences (the stuffiness of cheap Parisian hotel rooms 'invited the occupants to evict themselves from life''.Amy Mathleson, THE SCOTSMAN 'Mixing a densely metaphysicalapproach with a delightfully lyrical style, Okri here creates a truly fascinating work, and a hugely ambitious one too.'Doug Johnston, SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY'Capable of moments of beauty and lush description, he can still be arresting and evocative. This novel does contain moments of hallucinatory insight and, in the latter stages, acts as a fine artistic response to a great painting.'Stephen Abell, THE TLS 'Okri's new novel, IN ARCADIA...... is a kind of literary CELESTINE PROPHECY - a riddling quest for enlightenment, via the secret messages the universe drops before us.'Judith Palmer, THE INDEPENDENT 'The writing has a certain magisterial quality.'William Skidelsky, THE NEW STATESMAN'He (Okri) has wisdom to impart, and his characters represent the points of view required to get this message across.'Lottie Moggach, TIME OUT 'One thinks of the dead and unique WG Sebald, for example and of Ben Okri, writers of similar strange ambitions...... They're similar but they're also opposites: where Sebald's charm and magic is deliberately faded, and wilted and forlorn, Okri is bright, and striking and hungry.'Ian Samson, THE IRISH TIMES ART QUARTE
Author Bio
Ben Okri was born in Minna, Nigeria and presently lives in London. He has won many awards for his work, including the Booker Prize in 1991 for THE FAMISHED ROAD. He has published fiction, essays and poetry.