'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.
The Freedom Artist - Ben Okri
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