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Mental Fight
9,49 € |
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Verlag: | Ebury Digital |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 22.03.2012 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781448146857 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 80 |
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Beschreibungen
This epic poem by Booker Prize winner Ben Okri is an intimate song of rage and restoration. It speaks to each new moment and each person, like sunlight or like pain. It is an anthem to our ascending dreams, and a hymn of inspiration.
"Ben Okri is that rare thing, a literary and social visionary"
Ben Okri’s highly acclaimed book of poetry, brought back by popular demand
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.
‘An angry, hopeful, weary, wary, epic reveille to the human spirit’ The TimesBen Okri’s epic poem Mental Fight is a song of rage and restoration. It speaks to each new moment and each person, like sunlight or like pain: an anthem to our ascending dreams, and a hymn of inspiration.‘No contemporary writer has raised greater passions than Okri’ Guardian‘Ben Okri Is that rare thing, a literary and social visionary, a writer for whom all three – literature, culture and vision – are profoundly interwoven’ Scotsman