Dangerous Love

by Ben Okri (Author)

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  Paperback
  1996

  $5.11

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $5.11

  With the simplicity and innocence of Narayan or Seth, he tells the story of a young man, Omovo, an office-worker and artist who lives at home with his father and his father's second wife. In the communal world of the compound in which he lives, Omovo has many friends and some enemies, but most important of all there is Ifeyiwa, a beautiful young married woman whom he loves with an almost hopeless passion - not because she doesn't return his love, but because they can never be together. Ben Okri builds a vivid picture of Nigerian life: of the compound with its complete lack of privacy, the gossip, the good times, the street life, the complex nature of family relationships and the kindness and treachery of friends. Overshadowing everything, is the image of a nation struggling to come to terms with the atrocity of the recent civil war, the echoes of which presage the story's tragic

• Used

  Hardcover
  1996

  $5.11

  A major new novel from the Booker-prize winning Nigerian author set in Nigeria; a country failing to come to terms with the atrocity of a recent civil war and the echo of that violence in the life of Omovo; an office worker and artist, living in a compound with his second wife and father, but passionately and hopelessly in love with Ifeyinwa; a beautiful young married woman.