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Ben Okri
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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.
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- Verena
- 03-26-25
Astonishing as the story!
Couldn't afford to stop listening immediately I began. Held my attention from the beginning to the end!
I hope that future versions will be read in the voice of an Ijaw person as it does feel like we are invincible out there. However, the narrator was fantastic!
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- Patrick Zircher
- 01-30-24
A thoughtful search for enlightment
Nigerian-British poet/novelist Okri's fantasy of an invisible, that is marginalized, man who seeks understanding.
"I am traveling to know why I am invisible."
Very allegorical but also serene. will appeal to readers who enjoy Gibran's The Prophet.
Well read by Adrian Lester.
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- Quinn
- 03-01-23
Ethereal, Lyrical Storytelling!
Ben Okri astonishes The Gods and mortal readers with his poetic storytelling. Reading Okri is like falling in love...with his talent, his effortless use of vivid metaphor, philosophical questioning, and mystical allusion.
You don't just read or listen to Okri. You live more fully in the moments and realities you never could have imagined. And yet, you'll yearn for more even as he gifts the reader with new understanding, wonder, and love for humanity.
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