Freedom Artist - Ben Okri
KORTE INHOUD
One of 2019's most anticipated novels in THE TIMES, IRISH TIMESand GUARDIAN. 'Where fiction's master of enchantments stares down a real horror, and without blinking or flinching, produces a work of beauty, grace and uncommon power' MARLON JAMES, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2015. An impassioned plea for freedom and justice, set in a world uncomfortably like our own, by the Man Booker-winner Ben Okri. In a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman called Amalantisis arrested for asking a question. Her question is this: Who is the Prisoner? When Amalantis disappears, her lover Karnakgoes looking for her. He searches desperately at first, then with a growing realization. To find Amalantis, he must first understand the meaning of her question. Karnak's search leads him into a terrifying worldof lies, oppression and fear at the heart of which lies the Prison. Then Karnak discovers that he is not the only one looking for the truth. The Freedom Artistis an impassioned plea for justiceand a penetrating examin...
