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Prayer for the living : stories /

"Okri's new collection of short stories blur parallel realities and walk the line between darkness and magic. Is what you see all there is? Look again. 0Playful, frightening, even shocking - the stories in this collection blur the lines between illusion and reality. This is a writer at the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Okri, Ben (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2021]
Subjects:
Magic > Fiction.
Mixed reality > Fiction.
Murderers > Fiction.
Authors > Fiction.
Authors.
Magic.
Mixed reality.
Murderers.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Short stories.
Fiction.
Table of Contents:
  • Boko Haram (1)
  • Prayer for the living
  • An Inca elegy
  • A sinister perfection
  • Ancient ties of karma
  • Dreaming of Byzantium
  • The canopy
  • In the Ghetto
  • Hail
  • Mysteries
  • Tulips
  • The lie
  • Boko Haram (2)
  • The master's mirror
  • The Standeruppers
  • Alternative realities are true
  • The story in the next room
  • The overtaker
  • Raft
  • The secret history of a door
  • The offering
  • Don Ki-Otah and the ambiguity of reading
  • Boko Haram (3)
  • A street
  • All we do (poem).