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Astonishing the Gods

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. `The hero of this novel finds what he did not seek, and goes where he did not intend to go. As I did in writing it.` BEN OKRI.

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