Songs of Enchantment - Softcover
Myth and naturalism are combined in the story of Azaro, the spirit-child who lives in an impoverished African village, and the upheavals that he and his family face
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"Triumphant...a joyful and entertaining read" (Guardian)
"Passages of extraordinary beauty... Okri paints a convincing surrealist picture" (Sunday Times)
"Reading Okri felt to me like talking to someone who has a secret" (New Statesman)
"Ben Okri writes beautifully... a triumph of inspiration over the everyday. His prose is dense with pungent metaphor, sometimes whimsical, sometimes bawdy... fraught with wild visions" (The Times)
"A love story and an account of the conflict between the parties of the rich and the poor... Okri's voice is all his own" (Independent)
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"Passages of extraordinary beauty... Okri paints a convincing surrealist picture" (Sunday Times)
"Reading Okri felt to me like talking to someone who has a secret" (New Statesman)
"Ben Okri writes beautifully... a triumph of inspiration over the everyday. His prose is dense with pungent metaphor, sometimes whimsical, sometimes bawdy... fraught with wild visions" (The Times)
"A love story and an account of the conflict between the parties of the rich and the poor... Okri's voice is all his own" (Independent)
The second book in the trilogy which began with the Booker prize-winning The Famished Road.
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- PublisherDavid Philip Publishers
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0864862636
- ISBN 13 9780864862631
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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Songs of Enchantment
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