Description: From Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: a deceptively simple 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 or suffer every experience until we experience it properly and fully for the first time. '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 OKRI.
Review Quotes: "Amazing. I think this is as close as you can get to reliving the experience of a bedtime story." --The Guardian
"Illuminating...The episodic structure and beautiful poetic language perfectly complement the hero's journey. The narrative's kaleidoscopic nature has a transformative effect on the reader, making it deserving of a cult classic status." --Publishers Weekly "This slim but heady allegorical fable...will doubtless appeal to many of the readers who have made Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist a perennial success...a sumptuous new wisdom text." --Library Journal "Colorful and detailed yet somehow ethereal...a pithy allegorical novel about the power of the unseen." --Foreword Reviews "A modern-day classic." --Evening Standard "Beautiful. A new creation myth." --Daily Telegraph "I just finished Ben Okri's Astonishing the Gods and, quite frankly, I was awed. What a strange, unique, and enchanting book it is." --Nick Cave, singer, songwriter, and coauthor of Faith, Hope and Carnage