Astonishing the Gods

Selected as one of the BBC''s ''100 Novels That Shaped Our World''.
From Booker Prize winner Ben Okri, a deceptively simple modern fable with an ancient origin.

A young man finds himself living among invisible beings who have built a utopia based on one principle: that we must repeat or suffer every experience until we experience it properly and fully for the first time.

''A modern day classic'' Evening Standard

''Beautiful. A new creation myth'' Daily Telegraph

''Amazing. I think this is as close as you can get to reliving the experience of a bedtime story'' Guardian