Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri's latest novel, this tale of the time immediately before the arrival of the Atlantic slave trade restores a lost history to Okri's Nigerian homeland. PRAISE FOR BEN OKRI: '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, on The Freedom Artist. 'Ben Okri is that rare thing, a literary and social visionary, a writer for whom all three - literature, culture and vision - are profoundly interwoven'