Astonishing the Gods
Ben Okri
Other Press
<b><b>One of the BBC&rsquo;s &ldquo;100 Novels That Shaped Our World,&rdquo; a much-needed fable that could change how we see ourselves and our reality, from the renowned Booker Prize&ndash;winning author.</b></b><br><br>A young man finds himself among invisible beings who have built a world based on one principle: that we must repeat every experience until we live it fully for the first time. &ldquo;Only then can we find what we&nbsp;didn&rsquo;t seek and go where we don&rsquo;t intend to go.&rdquo;<br> &nbsp;<br> Ben Okri navigates the world at once as a writer, an artist, a musician, and a philosopher&mdash;in the process, he challenges our craving for the visual and the concrete. We read him not only with our eyes but also with our senses, our intuition. As his story&nbsp;unfolds we begin to inhabit the&nbsp;ineffable land that he creates, our&nbsp;imagination led to a place where what we once thought were fundamental truths are turned magically on their heads. &nbsp;<br>...