Incidents at the Shrine

Informationen zum Autor Ben Okri has published 8 novels, including The Famished Road , as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been awarded the OBE as well as numerous international prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore. He is a Vice-President of the English Centre of International PEN and was presented with a Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. He was born in Nigeria and lives in London. Klappentext Ben Okri has published 8 novels, including The Famished Road , as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been awarded the OBE as well as numerous international prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore. He is a Vice-President of the English Centre of International PEN and was presented with a Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. He was born in Nigeria and lives in London. Zusammenfassung Whether the subject is a child's eye view of the Nigerian Civil War, Lagos and the spirit world or dispossession in a decaying British inner city, Okri's lyrical, poetic and humorous prose recreates the known and the unknown world with startling power.

Product details

• Authors: Ben Okri, Okri Ben
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.03.1993
• EAN: 9780099983002
• ISBN: 978-0-09-998300-2
• No. of pages: 135
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Nigeria, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / City Life, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Magical Realism, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Modern and contemporary fiction, FICTION / World Literature / Africa / Nigeria, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary