Ben Okri

Azaro is a spirit child who is born only to live for a short while before returning to the idyllic world of his spirit companions. Now he has chosen to stay in the world of the living. This is his st

In "Tales of Freedom" Ben Okri brings both poetry and story together in a fascinating new form, using writing and image pared down to their essentials, where haiku and story meet. Thus we discover Pinprop, the slave to an old couple lost in a clearing, who holds the keys to the universe in his quirky hands. Ben Okri has published 8 novels. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages.

'We are listeners at the oracle. Those who truly hear are touched and changed.' At one level, STARBOOK tells the delicate story of a prince and a maiden who are both tested by trials in a mythical land where art, initiation and dynamic stillness are supremely important. At another level, this rich and stimulating novel opens up the nature of reality, where the essence of life is revealed, and the source of enchantment can be ours ndash; where beauty, regeneration and fulfilment are perhaps possible. A dazzling achievement of the imagination, and a profound work of literature of the kind that won Ben Okri the Booker Prize for THE FAMISHED ROAD his new novel is a pleasure to read, with an unforgettable radiance of its own. For, no matter where we live and who we think we are, we all have access to the oracle, and a vision of life far greater than ourselves, which comes from 'the book of life among the stars'.

En un primer nivel, El mago de las estrellas cuenta la delicada historia de un príncipe y una doncella que se ven sometidos a las pruebas de una tierra mítica en la que el arte, la iniciación y el silencio son extremadamente importantes.En un segundo nivel, esta rica y estimulante novela desvela la naturaleza de la realidad, en la que la esencia de la vida es reveladora y la fuente del encantamiento puede ser nuestra, en la que la belleza, la regeneracion y la realizacion son, quiza, posibles.Una novela de lectura apasionante e inmensamente placentera que irradia un aura inolvidable.

Éste es el canto de un espíritu circulante. Una historia para todos aquellos que jamás vemos las siete montañas de nuestro destino secreto, que nunca vemos que, tras el caos, siempre puede haber un nuevo rayo de luz.Tras la monumental novela El camino hambriento, que le valio el Booker Prize, el nigeriano Ben Okri nos ofrece esta deslumbrante y original nueva lectura, Canciones del encantamiento, en la que perviven todos los ingredientes de su exito anterior. En esta ocasion sigue la historia de Azaro, el niño-espiritu y su particular vision del mundo, con la que busca el camino para sobrevivir a las dificultades que afectan a su poblado y a su familia, siempre rodeados de los elementos misteriosos y fantasticos que configuran el universo magico y sugerente por el que Ben Okri es calificado por los lectores occidentales como el creador de un realismo magico internacional con el que revisa las tradicionales historias orales africanas y las diluye en unlenguaje estandar asimilable para el lector internacional.

Una creencia africana cuenta que existen los abiku, niños-espíritus que al sentir el sufrimiento desean volver al más allá, en memoria de una vida idílica. A través de una especial historia y un especial protagonista como hilo conductor Azaro, un niño-espiritu que decide seguir viviendo, Ben Okri nos muestra la realidad de Africa y, en cierto modo, la tentacion de la muerte para dejar de sufrir o el aferrarse a un sueño. La supervivencia de este pequeño abiku es la de un pueblo y asi transcurre esta novela intensa y emocionante, colmada de imagenes fantasticas y duramente reales.

Diseños de la cultura azteca para colorear y convertirlos en auténticas obras de arte

From Booker Prize-Winner Ben Okri. A group of world-weary travellers discover the meaning of life in a mysterious mountain village. Eight film-makers arrive at a small Swiss hotel on the shores of a luminous lake. Above them, strewn with lights that twinkle in the darkness, looms the towering Rigi mountain. Over the course of three days and two nights, the travellers will find themselves drawn in to the mystery of the mountain reflected in the lake. One by one, they will be disturbed, enlightened, and transformed, each in a different way. The Age of Magic has begun. Unveil your eyes. ALSO BY BEN OKRI: Astonishing the Gods, In Arcadia, A Way of Being Free, Dangerous Love.

An impassioned plea for freedom and justice, set in a world uncomfortably like our own, by the Man Booker-winner Ben Okri.

In the chaotic world of his African village, the spirit-child Azaro still watches the tumultuous and tender lives of the Living; of his father who has been imprisoned for a crime he did not commit and of his mother who battles for justice. In the chaotic world of his African village, the spirit-child Azaro still watches the tumultuous and tender lives of the Living; of his father who has been imprisoned for a crime he did not commit and of his mother who battles for justice. This final chapter in Azaro's adventures is a explosive and haunting climax to this masterful trilogy.

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. 'It was a sheer joy to be able to read this. It is mysterious and magical and true.Children and those who read it to them will love it and long remember it. The illustrations are woven wonderfully around the words; the trees are with you, telling it, writing it. Once read we will know never to take trees or leaves for granted again.A powerful symphony of a story that will resonate for every reader. We hear the wind in the trees on every page. We only have to listen' MICHAEL MORPURGOIn 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 its own personality and voice. The chief among them, the great baobab, invites us into his branches to travel the world and see for ourselves the perils of not listening to nature. All around us, forests are vanishing, and no one is listening.

Following on from "The Famished Road", winner of the 1991 Booker Prize, this is a continuation of the story of Azaro, spirit-child and reluctant traveller in the realities of this world. Azaro''s narrative, in which nothing is quite what it seems, reveals a nation struggling to be born.

A collection of exquisitely crafted essays by Ben Okri, one of Britain's foremost poets, and a Booker Prize-winning novelist, that explore such diverse themes as childhood and creativity, beauty, censorship, art and politics.'A single line,' writes Ben Okri, 'can lead the mind to terraces of contemplation. Naturally it depends on the line and the view.'This is a collection of exquisitely crafted essays on themes as diverse as childhood and creativity, beauty, censorship, art and politics. They are responses to the world and the times we live in. They ask unsettling questions. They provoke thoughts and they make us dream.'Profound and enchanting' The Times.'There can be no mistaking Okri's passion and intelligence. A powerful piece of work' Sunday Telegraph.

Okri brings both poetry and story together in a fascinating new form, using writing and image pared down to their essentials, where haiku and story meet. As one of Britain's foremost poets, Ben Okri is rightly acclaimed for his use of language. Here, the Booker prize-winning author brings both poetry and story together in a fascinating new form, using writing and image pared down to their essentials, where haiku and story meet. This significant title story 'The Comic Destiny' forms the centrepiece of this collection, complemented by thirteen magical stokus. In his new introduction Ben Okri describes it as a talisman, an alchemic instigator for much of his later work. The stoku is a blend of story and haiku. And thirteen, according to the author, is the number of liberation. All these stories are about freedom. They flow easily, but burn slowly. And they offer the possibility of freedom beyond the confines of our usual perception. 'Moments of genuine insight and poetry' Guardian . 'Okri's writing has a light-as-air elegance, yet its seriousness keeps the stories gravity bound' New Statesman .

LES AIGüES DE LA HUMANITAT/ THE WATERS OF HUMANITY es un libro del autor OKRI, BEN editado por CENTRE DE CULTURA CONTEMPORÀNIA DE BARCE. LES AIGüES DE LA HUMANITAT/ THE WATERS OF HUMANITY tiene un có

Whether the subject is a childs eye view of the Nigerian Civil War, Lagos and the spirit world or dispossession in a decaying British inner city, Okris lyrical, poetic and humorous prose recreates the known and the unknown world with startling power.

This novel, winner of the 1991 Booker Prize, is set in a poor people's compound during the Nigerian civil war, and reflects the changes in Africa since 1960. It tells how a young boy's failure to subdue his spiritual powers has disturbing consequences for him and his parents.