Astonishing the Gods

Selected as one of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'.From Booker Prize winner Ben Okri, a deceptively simple modern fable with an ancient origin.A young man finds himself living among invisible beings who have built a utopia based on one principle: that we must repeat or suffer every experience until we experience it properly and fully for the first time.'A modern day classic' Evening Standard'Beautiful. A new creation myth' Daily Telegraph'Amazing. I think this is as close as you can get to reliving the experience of a bedtime story' Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Ben Okri, Okri Ben
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 12.03.2015
• EAN: 9781784082550
• ISBN: 978-1-78408-255-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, Fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary