Tough Alchemy of Ben Okri

Winner of the Booker Prize for The Famished Road Ben Okri is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary writers writing today. Featuring a substantial new interview with Ben Okri himself a full bibliography of his creative work and covering his complete works this is the first in-depth study of Okri’s themes and artistic vision. Rosemary Gray explores Okri’s career-long engagement with myth Nigerian politics and culture and with the environmental crisis in the age of the Anthropocene.