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The Freedom Artist
Ben Okri
出版
Bloomsbury Publishing
, 2019-02-07
主題
Fiction / General
Fiction / Literary
ISBN
1788549589
9781788549585
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cqufEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
One of 2019's most anticipated novels in
THE TIMES
,
IRISH TIMES
and
GUARDIAN
.
'Where fiction's master of enchantments stares down a real horror, and without blinking or flinching, produces a work of beauty, grace and uncommon power' MARLON JAMES, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2015.
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 search leads him into a
terrifying world
of lies, oppression and fear at the heart of which lies the
Prison
. Then Karnak discovers that he is not the only one looking for the truth.
The Freedom Artist
is an impassioned plea for
justice
and a penetrating examination of how freedom is threatened in a
post-truth
society. In Ben Okri's most significant novel since the Booker Prize-winning
The Famished Road
, he delivers a powerful and haunting call to arms.
'Ben Okri is that rare thing, a literary and social visionary, a writer for whom all three – literature, culture and vision – are profoundly interwoven' ALI SMITH
.
