Astonishing the Gods

<p><b>Explore the extraordinary imagination of Booker Prize-winner and visionary author Ben Okri – one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature.</b><br><br><i>‘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</i>.’ BEN OKRI<br><br>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.<br><br>''<b>Beautiful</b>. A new creation myth'' <i>Daily Telegraph</i><br><br>''Amazing. I think this is <b>as close as you can get to reliving the experience of a bedtime story</b>'' <i>Guardian</i></p>