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An environmental fairytale made for our times, written to be read by adults and children, from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Famished Road. In the forest near Mangoshi's village in Africa there grows a very special flower. Mangoshi knows that only this flower can save her mother's life. It can save her village too. All she has to do is find it. Ben Okri and Diana Ejaita have created a magical world of beauty and colour, an enchanting array of extraordinary trees, each with...

‘So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use’ The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Nearly called back to the land of the dead, he is resurrected. But in their efforts to save their child, Azaro's loving parents are made destitute. The tension...

Journey between the land of the Living and the spirit world in this magical Booker Prize-winning novel 'So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use' Azaro, is a spirit child, who in many traditions of Nigeria exists between life and death. Born into a difficult world, Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, where there is no suffering, Azaro chooses to stay in the...

An impassioned plea for freedom and justice, set in a world uncomfortably like our own, by the Man Booker-winner Ben Okri. In a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman called Amalantis is arrested for asking a question. Her question is this: Who is the Prisoner? When Amalantis disappears, her lover Karnak goes looking for her. He searches desperately at first, then with a growing realization. To find Amalantis, he must first understand the meaning of her question. Karnak's...

By a riverbank in Africa, two lovers meet for the first time. They make a promise to meet again the next day, same time, same place, but only one of them shows up. This sounds like the beginning of a love story, but it's more than that, for this breathtaking tale takes the reader into the heart of a vibrant world, a complex and intriguing civilisation of warriors and kings, philosophers and artists, parents and lovers. A world and culture which is about to end for, glimpsed on the horizon,...

Maailmas, mis on kõhedust tekitavalt meie omaga sarnane, arreteeritakse noor naine Amalantis selle eest, et ta julges esitada küsimuse: kes on see vang? Kui Amalantis kaob, asub tema armsam Karnak naist otsima. Mees otsib algul meeleheitlikult, hiljem kasvava enesekindlusega. Et armastatu leida, peab ta esmalt mõistma naise esitatud küsimust. Otsingud viivad Karnaki hirmuäratavasse maailma, mis on tulvil valesid ja rõhumist, maailma, mille südames asub Vangla. Ühtäkki mõistab Karnak, et ta ei...

«Африка» впервые на русском языке публикует романы, повести, рассказы, стихи, пьесы, сказки, статьи, очерки писателей стран Африки, а также произведения советских и зарубежных авторов, посвященные этому континенту. В одиннадцатый выпуск сборника «Африка» вошли увлекательный, имитирующий по композиции «Тысячу и одну ночь» роман члена Французской академии Жозефа Кесселя «У стен Старого Танжера» — о жизни в Марокко до освобождения этой страны от колониального гнета, роман нигерийского писателя...

«Горизонты внутри нас» — второй роман молодого писателя. Первый — «Цветы и тени» — был встречен множеством положительных откликов и в Нигерии, и за рубежом. Один из его доброжелательных критиков, Биодун Джейифо, в нигерийском журнале «Гардиан» высказал даже такое мнение: «Проза Бена Окри красноречиво и трогательно говорит от имени целого поколения».