Incidents At The Shrine
  • Published: 1 June 1993
  • ISBN: 9780099983002
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $19.99

Incidents At The Shrine

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Booker-Prize winner Ben Okri blends the African oral storytelling tradition with Magical Realism in this mesmerizing collection of short stories.

Incidents at the Shrine is the first collection of stories by the author of 1991 Booker Prize-winning novel, The Famished Road. Whether the subject is a child's eye view of the Nigerian Civil War, Lagos and the spirit world or dispossession in a decaying British inner city, Okri's lyrical, poetic and humorous prose recreates the known and the unknown world with startling power.
  • Published: 1 June 1993
  • ISBN: 9780099983002
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Ben Okri

Ben Okri has published 8 novels, including The Famished Road, as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been awarded the OBE as well as numerous international prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore. He is a Vice-President of the English Centre of International PEN and was presented with a Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. He was born in Nigeria and lives in London.

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Also by Ben Okri

The Appeal
Infinite Riches
Stars Of The New Curfew
An African Elegy
Songs of Enchantment
The Famished Road
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Praise for Incidents At The Shrine

[A] literary and social visionary

Ali Smith

These are beautiful stories but they bite

New Statesman

Ben Okri...seems to have the two great gifts that are required to make a man a teller of tales: first, faultless artistic economy, which shows in his razor-sharp prose; second, an ability to place himself, chameleon-like in any milieu of society, from the highest to the lowest... Mr. Okri, in short, knows his business

Evening Standard
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