{"product_id":"9781789543889-freedom-artist","title":"Freedom Artist","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn impassioned plea for freedom and justice, set in a world uncomfortably like our own.\u003c\/p\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of 2019's most anticipated novels in \u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIRISH TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2015. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn impassioned plea for freedom and justice, set in a world uncomfortably like our own, by the Man Booker-winner Ben Okri. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman called \u003cb\u003eAmalantis\u003c\/b\u003e is arrested for asking a question. Her question is this: \u003cb\u003eWho is the Prisoner?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Amalantis disappears, her lover \u003cb\u003eKarnak\u003c\/b\u003e goes looking for her. He searches desperately at first, then with a growing realization. To find Amalantis, he must first understand the meaning of her question. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKarnak's search leads him into a \u003cb\u003eterrifying world\u003c\/b\u003e of lies, oppression and fear at the heart of which lies the \u003cb\u003ePrison\u003c\/b\u003e. Then Karnak discovers that he is not the only one looking for the truth. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Freedom Artist\u003c\/i\u003e is an impassioned plea for \u003cb\u003ejustice\u003c\/b\u003e and a penetrating examination of how freedom is threatened in a \u003cb\u003epost-truth\u003c\/b\u003e society. In Ben Okri's most significant novel since the Booker Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Famished Road\u003c\/i\u003e, he delivers a powerful and haunting call to arms. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Ben Okri is that rare thing, a literary and social visionary, a writer for whom all three – literature, culture and vision – are profoundly interwoven' ALI SMITH\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31644081389665,"sku":"9781789543889","price":13.57,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/products\/91ba07f584cd36e402caa0f78f8d8b1d_7331adb6-c766-49ec-8d23-bbe031700ce5.jpg?v=1578529818","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781789543889-freedom-artist","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}