{"product_id":"the-freedom-artist-1","title":"Ben Okri: The Freedom Artist [2019] paperback","description":"One of 2019's most anticipated novels in \u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIRISH TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn impassioned plea for freedom and justice, set in a world uncomfortably like our own, by the Man Booker-winner Ben Okri. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman called \u003cb\u003eAmalantis\u003c\/b\u003e is arrested for asking a question. Her question is this: \u003cb\u003eWho is the Prisoner?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Amalantis disappears, her lover \u003cb\u003eKarnak\u003c\/b\u003e goes 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKarnak's search leads him into a \u003cb\u003eterrifying world\u003c\/b\u003e of lies, oppression and fear at the heart of which lies the \u003cb\u003ePrison\u003c\/b\u003e. Then Karnak discovers that he is not the only one looking for the truth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Freedom Artist\u003c\/i\u003e is an impassioned plea for \u003cb\u003ejustice\u003c\/b\u003e and a penetrating examination of how freedom is threatened in a \u003cb\u003epost-truth\u003c\/b\u003e society. In Ben Okri's most significant novel since the Booker Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Famished Road\u003c\/i\u003e, he delivers a powerful and haunting call to arms. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Ben Okri is that rare thing, a literary and social visionary, a writer for whom all three - literature, culture and vision - are profoundly interwoven' ALI SMITH\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Okri, Ben","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46484393558355,"sku":"9781788549615","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/okri-ben-ben-okri-the-freedom-artist-2019-paperback-9781788549615-1152989546.jpg?v=1743375083","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/the-freedom-artist-1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}