Astonishing The Gods

From the Booker prize-winning author of The Famished Roadcomes this bewitching novel. It is a modern fable about the relationship between love, suffering and creativity.

"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," Ben Okra writes in his new introduction to his classic novel. A young man finds himself living among invisible beings who have built a utopia based on one principle: that we must repeat or suffer every experience until we experience it properly and fully for the first time.

Set on an enchanted island, Astonishing the Gods is shot through with the gentle magic of Ben Okri's imaginative prose.