Infinite Riches

by Ben Okri

Book Overview

Azaro is a spirit child. He made a pact with his spirit companions that when he was born he would die at the first opportunity and rejoin them. But after his birth, Azaro broke his pact. His spirit... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0753806800
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Phoenix
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.9" x 1.0" x 5.1"

Customer Reviews

Infinite Psychedelia

The language is truly beautiful in this book. Reading it feels like walking in a mysterious and luxurient tropical forest. Hoots, beeps, deep shades of green, flashing reds and yellows, sudden appearances - that is the undercurrent in this book. And just like in a rainforest, I got increasingly nervous the further I got and wanted to find a way out. The narrator in this story is a visionary young boy, who describes a couple of threatening happenings in his town. His father is aquitted for a murder he didn't commit, his mother rages through town to find him, the forest is being cut down and life flees from it. The fate of the two opposing characters - the black African Queen-like figure and the white Ambassador - is ornamented by the threatening and dreamlike (en)chanted events. A psychedelic combination.