Prayer for the Living
Ben Okri
Prayer for the Living
Ben Okri
Topical and timely, Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri’s new collection of short stories blurs parallel realities and walks the line between darkness and magic.
A Library Journal Best Book of 2021
No matter how different each story is in context or story line, Prayer for the Living is not simply a collection of different tales, it is a deliberate assemblage of universal truths that explores what it means to seek and to live.
–Los Angeles Review of Books
[Okri’s] new story collection, Prayer for the Living, spans the globe.
–Los Angeles Times
Prayer for the Living creates beauty in the empty spaces, and the confusing lines between reality and myth … Regardless of where Ben Okri takes his readers, he does so with a steady, confident hand, even in ambiguity.
–Locus Magazine
Playful, frightening, shocking–these stories from a writer at the height of his power will make you think, or make you laugh. Sometimes they’ll make you want to look away, but they will always hold your gaze.
These are stories set in London, in Byzantium, in the ghetto, in the Andes, and in a printer’s shop in Lagos. Characters include a murderer, a writer, a detective, a woman in a dream, a man in a mirror, a little girl, a prison door, and the author himself.
Each one of these twenty-four stories will make you wonder if what you see in the world can really be all there is …
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