From Booker Prize winner Ben Okri, a deceptively simple modern fable with an ancient origin.
Explore the extraordinary imagination of Booker Prize-winner and visionary author Ben Okri – one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature.
‘The hero of this novel finds what he did not seek, and goes where he did not intend to go. As I did in writing it. I set out to find one thing, but found another.’ BEN OKRI
In this disarmingly beautiful 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 every experience until we live it properly and fully for the first time.
'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
"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
"Genuinely fresh insight... the invisibility theme is a good one, for the multiple associations it carries, especially for an African writer'" - The Herald