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The Age Of Magic

The Age Of Magic

by Ben Okri (Author)

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    Paperback 2015

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Synopsis

From Booker Prize-Winner Ben Okri. A group of world-weary travellers discover the meaning of life in a mysterious mountain village.

Eight film-makers arrive at a small Swiss hotel on the shores of a luminous lake. Above them, strewn with lights that twinkle in the darkness, looms the towering Rigi mountain.

Over the course of three days and two nights, the travellers will find themselves drawn in to the mystery of the mountain reflected in the lake. One by one, they will be disturbed, enlightened, and transformed, each in a different way.

The Age of Magic has begun. Unveil your eyes.

ALSO BY BEN OKRI:
Astonishing the Gods, In Arcadia, A Way of Being Free, Dangerous Love.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Publisher: Head of Zeus
Published: 03 Sep 2015
ISBN 10: 1784081485
ISBN 13: 9781784081485

Media Reviews
'Okri is incapable of writing a boring sentence' Independent on Sunday.
'Part narrative, part philosophy, part allegory ... this novel offers the reader not just a story, but a series of intriguing and revelations on the mysterious and blurring of the lines between life and death, illusion and reality, and good and evil' Daily Mail.
'A dreamlike modern fairytale ... Strange and poetic' The Times.
'Like the best fairy tales it has lines of smoothly lyrical beauty. You have to applaud Okri for it. To get a novel that's not a novel, that so blithely eschews the structural conventions of the novel, from a Booker-winning novelist is fresh and revitalising' Irish Times.
'As you'd expect from Okri, the emphasis is very much on the magical, beautifully written' Mail on Sunday.
'Okri's tale of eight filmmakers at a lakeside hotel feels like a philosophical enquiry, in which the cast of characters operate as mouthpieces, there to speculate on the notion of Arcadia' Sunday Herald.
'A sort of philosophical meditation on the idea of paradise. Okri's otherworldly literary approach has produced masterpieces' Independent on Sunday.
Author Bio

Ben Okri has published many books, including The Famished Road, which won the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into 26 languages and won numerous international prizes. Born in Nigeria, he lives in London.