This is the Booker Prize winning novel by the Nigerian writer Ben Okri, and while he was still only about 30 when it was published, it’s his third published novel. It’s one of the longer Booker Prize winners at over 500 pages (Sacred Hunger, The Luminaries, Wolf Hall, Possession, The Blind Assassin) and it takes place sometime in the 20th century in a country that seems a lot like Nigeria, but is not named. The book has a cosmology to it that involves reincarnation, parallel […]