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""A perfect read for a post-truth era."" --NPR 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 that to find Amalantis, he must first understand the meaning of her question.Karnak's search leads him into a terrifying world of deception, 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.

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A meditation on the threat to freedom represented by the emergence of what is already called 'a post-truth society.' It's a novel for our times. --Scotsman The book posits the theory that we are all in an inescapable prison...The novel is written in a postmodern style reminiscent of Henry Miller or William Burroughs. --i Okri creates a chilling atmosphere in The Freedom Artist...Okri's rhythmic, folk tale-like prose is beguiling. --Sunday Times (UK) Ben Okri's most significant novel since his Man Booker Prize-winning masterpiece The Famished Road, The Freedom Artist weaves together ancient myth and modern politics for an impassioned story primed for the post-truth age. A story of love and loss, fiercely told and impossible to ignore. --Waterstones, The Best Books to Look Out For in 2019 The Freedom Artist has a compelling power and energy that won't let the reader go. --The Herald (UK) Praise for Ben Okri: 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, author of How to be both Okri is incapable of writing a boring sentence. As one startling image follows the next, The Famished Road begins to read like an epic poem that happens to touch down just this side of prose...When I finished the book and went outside, it was as if all the trees of South London had angels sitting in them. --Linda Grant, Independent on Sunday

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Ben Okri was born in Minna, Nigeria. His childhood was divided between Nigeria, where he saw firsthand the consequences of war, and London. He won the Booker Prize in 1991 for The Famished Road. He has published eleven novels, four volumes of short stories, four books of essays, and four collections of poems. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He also writes plays and screenplays. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a vice president of English PEN, and has been awarded the OBE as well as numerous international prizes and honorary doctorates.

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