The Freedom Artist
Ben Okri"A perfect read for a post-truth era." --NPR
In a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman called Amalantis is arrested for asking a question. Her question is this: Who is the Prisoner?
When Amalantis disappears, her lover Karnak goes looking for her. He searches desperately at first, then with a growing realization that to find Amalantis, he must first understand the meaning of her question.Karnak's search leads him into a terrifying world of deception, oppression, and fear at the heart of which lies the prison. Then Karnak discovers that he is not the only one looking for the truth.
The Freedom Artist is an impassioned plea for justice and a penetrating examination of how freedom is threatened in a post-truth society. In Ben Okri's most significant novel since the Booker Prize-winning The Famished Road, he delivers a powerful and haunting call to arms.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
Published: 02/04/2020
ISBN: 9781617757921
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.20w x 1.40d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 12/02/2019 pg. 122
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2019 pg. 100
Booklist 01/01/2020 pg. 35