The Magic Lamp

Dreams of Our Age

Ben Okri, Rosemary Clunie

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English

Head of Zeus
01 November 2017

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Twenty-five stories, twenty-five paintings, five years to write, ten years to paint.

This is an extraordinary collaboration between artist and artist: the Booker Prize-winning writer Ben Okri and the painter Rosemary Clunie. Together they have created a world, and peopled it with dreams.

Twenty-five fairy tales for adults, these narratives are a response to our times, informed by our world but not limited by it, imaginative, enchanting, haunting – both prescient and prophetic. Twenty-five original paintings, beautiful, playful, intimate, dreamlike, these works pull you in to a land of colour and vision.

Who can say which came first, the word or image, when both grew together out of a long friendship and a creative symbiosis. What if Calvino and Magritte had combined inspiration? What if we could see our world again with a child's eyes? What if there really is a magic lamp?

By: Ben Okri
Illustrated by: Rosemary Clunie
Imprint: Head of Zeus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781786694508
ISBN 10: 1786694506
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 01 November 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Author Website: http://www.wardmccandlish.co.uk/AuthorPhoto/HeadofZeus/Ben_Okri.jpg

Ben Okri has published many books, including The Famished Road, which won the Booker Prize, and The Age of Magic. His work has been translated into 27 languages and won numerous international prizes. Born in Nigeria, he lives in London.

Reviews for The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age

This is a magical book in every sense, a spellbinding, poetic, artistic journey into our collective imaginations and inner selves -- Will Gompertz [Okri] and Clunie step back from judgment, calling on us to draw our own conclusions. But like Okri's young traveller, we may end up where we started, but seeing the place we thought we knew in a very different light * Financial Times * Those who like their fairy stories with a moral backbone may find succour here * TLS * Okri's writing has a light-as-air elegance, yet its seriousness keeps the stories gravity-bound * New Statesman *