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The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age
Ben Okri
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Description for The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age
Hardback. A new collection of meditation and stories from the Booker prize-winning author, Ben Okri. Illustrator(s): Clunie, Rosemary. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrated. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 170. .
Twenty-five stories, twenty-five paintings, five years to write, ten years to paint. This is an extraordinary collaboration between artist and artist: the Booker Prize-winning writer Ben Okri and the painter Rosemary Clunie. Together they have created a world, and peopled it with dreams. Twenty-five fairy tales for adults, these narratives are a response to our times, informed by our world but not limited by it, imaginative, enchanting, haunting – both prescient and prophetic. Twenty-five original paintings, beautiful, playful, intimate, dreamlike, these works pull you in to a land of colour and vision. Who can ... Read more
Twenty-five stories, twenty-five paintings, five years to write, ten years to paint. This is an extraordinary collaboration between artist and artist: the Booker Prize-winning writer Ben Okri and the painter Rosemary Clunie. Together they have created a world, and peopled it with dreams. Twenty-five fairy tales for adults, these narratives are a response to our times, informed by our world but not limited by it, imaginative, enchanting, haunting – both prescient and prophetic. Twenty-five original paintings, beautiful, playful, intimate, dreamlike, these works pull you in to a land of colour and vision. Who can ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786694508
SKU
V9781786694508
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Ref
99-50
About Ben Okri
Ben Okri was born in Minna, Nigeria. His childhood was divided between Nigeria, where he saw first hand the consequences of war, and London. He has won many prizes over the years for his fiction, and is also an acclaimed essayist, playwright, and poet.
Reviews for The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age
This is a magical book in every sense, a spellbinding, poetic, artistic journey into our collective imaginations and inner selves
Will Gompertz [Okri] and Clunie step back from judgment, calling on us to draw our own conclusions. But like Okri's young traveller, we may end up where we started, but seeing the place we thought we knew in a ... Read more
Will Gompertz [Okri] and Clunie step back from judgment, calling on us to draw our own conclusions. But like Okri's young traveller, we may end up where we started, but seeing the place we thought we knew in a ... Read more