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Physical description; 135p ; 23cm. Subject; Nigeria Social life and customs Fiction. Short stories in English Nigerian writers 1960 Texts.
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"[A] literary and social visionary" (Ali Smith)
"These are beautiful stories but they bite" (New Statesman)
"Ben Okri...seems to have the two great gifts that are required to make a man a teller of tales: first, faultless artistic economy, which shows in his razor-sharp prose; second, an ability to place himself, chameleon-like in any milieu of society, from the highest to the lowest... Mr. Okri, in short, knows his business" (Evening Standard)
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"These are beautiful stories but they bite" (New Statesman)
"Ben Okri...seems to have the two great gifts that are required to make a man a teller of tales: first, faultless artistic economy, which shows in his razor-sharp prose; second, an ability to place himself, chameleon-like in any milieu of society, from the highest to the lowest... Mr. Okri, in short, knows his business" (Evening Standard)
Booker-Prize winner Ben Okri blends the African oral storytelling tradition with Magical Realism in this mesmerizing collection of short stories.
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- PublisherWilliam Heinemann Ltd
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0434532304
- ISBN 13 9780434532308
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages128
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